Abstract
Although within Puerto Rican literary studies Alejandro Tapia y Rivera is better-known for his novels, poems and plays, there have been few studies of what could be considered his minor works compared to his more well-known writings (La cuarterona, La santaniada, Póstumo el transmigrado). Many of these minor texts appeared in the magazine La Azucena: Literatura, Ciencias, Artes, Viajes y Costumbres, Dedicada alBello Sexo Pto-riqueño, edited by Tapia between 1870-1877. For this essay, I will analyze how Tapia, in one of his minor works titled "Un viaje a Monte-Edén," applied his romantic sensibility to articulate themes of great importance in his literary work: modernity and cosmopolitanism in the service of the "nation of the future." By analyzing this parodical satire I will demonstrate how Tapia combined diverse tropes and genres in this text to develop a vision of Puerto Rico as a "nation of the future."
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