Abstract
This article proposes a reading of Rosario Ferré’s Sweet Diamond Dust through the logic of debt, an effort focused on unearthing the ideological preconditions of extraction via debt rather than the mechanism of extraction itself. This seminal Puerto Rican collection has largely been read as a critique of the national romance and its underlying racial, gender, and sexual politics of genealogical inquiry. This article traces this inquiry, yet focuses on inheritance, redress, and property ownership as both central to the national romance and as key sites for the negotiation and contestation of the ideologies central to accumulation via debt. It uses Rosa Luxemburg’s theorisation of ongoing primitive accumulation to understand the continuation of capitalism and its generation of a particular indebted subjectivity, reading Gloria and Titina’s razing of the De la Valle home in the book’s eponymous novella as a complication and negotiation of the constitution of an indebted subjectivity.
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