The Ill Revolutionary Body and the Quest for Dignity in Puerto Rico:A Feminist Study of Pedro Albizu Campos’s Portraits

This talk examines a series of Puerto Rican nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos’s portraits from the 1920s to the 1960s. The focus of the analysis is the body of the revolutionary leader, portrayed throughout the years as a fighter, an intellectual, anda feeble and dying man. Within the context of the Puerto Rican colonial struggle during the twentieth century and Albizu Campos’s discourses on dignity, the argument will lead us to consider the role that both vulnerable men and social reproductive women acquire in relation to a particular meaning that sovereignty has acquired in the island.