The Construction of Puerto Rican Identity in Sínsoras, by José Luis Vega.

Abstract

The cultural manifestation is implicit in our daily life, in the language that we speak, in the places that we visit, in the smells, in our thoughts, in our behavior, and with the use of the puertorriqueñismos (words of the Spanish of Puerto Rico). Sínsoras, poetic book published in 2013, has in its title a puertorriqueñismo and with it, a whole poetic discourse of cultural identity in a veguiano (his title of writing) lyric style. This investigation is an analytical and structural approach of how this cultural manifestation is intertwined in the first four sections of the poetic with spaces full of their life with his characters and behavior. The daily life, simplicity, and linguistic clarity are characteristic elements that stand out in the verses of Vega from which he gets his inspiration to make poetic and eternal the daily elements from Puerto Rican life.