SOURCE: A review of The Docile Puerto Rican, translated by Barbara B. Aponte, in World Literature Today, Vol. LI, No. 1, Winter, 1977, p. 72.

In the following review of The Docile Puerto Rican, Tatum praises the work for its historical and political insight.

The Puerto Rican René Marqués is well known as a dramatist and prose fiction writer, but he has received little attention as an essayist. This volume of his essays thus constitutes a valuable contribution to our knowledge of this important Latin American writer as well as to our understanding of the Puerto Rican and his unique relationship to the United States.

In her introduction the translator wastes no time in going to the heart of Marqués's essays: the problem of the US's political, economic and cultural domination of Latin America in general and of Puerto Rico in particular. Throughout his literary career he has addressed...