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- R. Rosa. "Crédito, propiedad y narración en la novela tropical de Zeno Gandía." Estudios: Revista de investigaciones literarias y culturales 15:21 (Summer, 2007): 95-122. [pdf]
Abstract:
The article upholds that El negocio (1920),
the third novel by Puerto Rican naturalist
author Manuel Zeno Gandía, was less
well-received by critics and readers than his
earlier work, La charca (1894), in part
because of its focus on the Island’s
commercial circuits and geographical
displacements throughout the Atlantic during
the last years of Spanish colonial
domination. The centrality of credit,
finance, and property relations, reveals an
anxiety (as well as ambivalence) on the part
of the author toward the incorporation of the
Island into colonial modernity. These
anxieties and ambivalences are also
recognizable in Zeno Gandía’s deployment of
realist techniques of representation. More so
than his earlier work, El negocio links
representation to a distinctive articulation
of relationships between political economy,
democracy, colonialism, and truth, thereby
providing a different dimension to the
realism that is characteristic of the author.
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