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Gregory Rabassa’s “If this be Treason,” New Directions 2006

Link: Read excerpt at Google Books

 

Mirta Ojito article in The New York Times

Link: The New York Times, May 26, 1998, Mirta Ojito, front page feature, Arts, The Ladies Gallery, "Shots that Haunted three Generations," E.1

“Ms. Vilar, who prefers discussing poetry to politics, says she wrote the book not to add to or detract from her grandmother’s near-mythic status, but to give a voice to herself and to her dead mother, Gladys Mendez. Both, she says, have languished in the shadow of Ms. Lebron.”

 

Article by Melanie A. Pérez Ortiz

Link: "Irene Vilar: Critique of Self-Sacrifice in the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party From the Forbidden Side of the Border" por Melanie A. Pérez Ortiz, Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos, University of Puerto Rico

 

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