Ausubo Press announces its latest book: The Quickening of Albizu Campos: How Fenianism Galvanized the Last American Liberator
Two bills have been introduced to the US Congress that hope to resolve the contentious status of Puerto Rico: the Statehood Admissions Act and the Self-Determination Act. Will either settle the question of annexation to the United States? According to Ausubo Press' latest book, given the history of nationalism in Puerto Rico and its premier spokesperson Pedro Albizu Campos, what was breached cannot be restored by ill-suited bills.
NEW YORK, March 23, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- In this brilliant retelling of Albizu Campos' formative years in Harvard and beyond, the author provides a fresh look into the insurgent education Albizu received from Irish nationalists known as Fenians, and how it seeded the nationalist revolution against the US occupation of Puerto Rico.
However, it would be a hybrid Fenianism—Albizuista Fenianism—that produced the greatest movement to rouse the people against foreign occupation and point a way to liberate Puerto Rico. And according to Albizuista Fenianism, congressional bills are nonstarters.
"Puerto Rico…had no other destiny than that of liberating herself from those people who did not deign to consult her at a historic moment, the end of the United States' war with Spain…At the time Albizu already had the feeling that the struggle would be long, hard … Yet he spoke with such enthusiasm about the example of Ireland, which in those years waged such a heroic battle against England." —Jorge Mañach
The Quickening sheds light on the one Puerto Rican figure who has been vilified, but occasionally honored in the naming of schools by educators who fear that the remarkable movement Albizu led, and his consequential role in history, will be erased. With this book a missing piece of the puzzle to Albizu Campos is placed, and a clearer picture emerges of the standard-bearer known as "the conscience of his people."
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Aoife Rivera Serrano is a literary translator and independent researcher. She is the publisher of two controversial authors: Antonio Pedreira and Anthony McIntyre. With The Quickening of Albizu Campos, she adds her voice to a series of unique insights that connect two complex countries—Ireland and Puerto Rico.
The Quickening of Albizu Campos: How Fenianism Galvanized the Last American Liberator
by Aoife Rivera Serrano
Publisher: Ausubo Press
On sale: August 15, 2022
Price: USD 35.95
Pages: 264
ISBN: 978-1-932982-00-8
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William Cadiz, Ausubo Press, 1 212 636 6682, [email protected]
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