People + Culture
La mujer que ayudó a escribir la identidad puertorriqueña
Concha Melendez Ramirez, the Generacion del Treinta, and a National Historic Landmark receipt show how Puerto Rico also defended identity through books, classrooms, and literary criticism.
Receipt Spine
- NPS/National Historic Landmark records connect Casa Dra. Concha Melendez Ramirez with major trends in Puerto Rican literature.
- The source trail ties her to the Generacion del Treinta, a movement responding to U.S. control and shaping twentieth-century Puerto Rican cultural identity.
- Concha is identified as one of the most prominent female voices in that movement and in Puerto Rican literary criticism.