De la nostalgia a la invención: Seva. Invasión de Estados Unidos a Puerto Rico

Abstract

This essay studies Seva. Historia de la primera invasión norteamericana de la isla de Puerto Rico ocurrida en mayo de 1898 written by Puerto Rican author Luis López Nieves, from two perspectives. The first one is related to the nostalgic impulse that drives the novel, and the second one deals with the way in which the author reinforces the subject matter as palliative to his grief. The readers’ reaction is explained as the continuation of the nostalgic impulse of the author. Certainly, the response to this first edition was defined by the shared history of author and readers; nevertheless, in this essay the importance of the different ways of signification that López Nieves used, are emphasized as an important instrument of the truthfulness which characterized this idyllic history.