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This chapter, in making an argument for the importance of make-believe in forming a robust political imagination, turns its attention to a pair of Puerto Rican wrestlers, whose performance as villains highlights the terms of Puerto Rico’s visibility in the American imagination: a beautiful place, but a bad investment—a domesticated population, but severely policed.
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Rebollo Gil, G. (2018). How to Become Visible. In: Writing Puerto Rico. New Caribbean Studies. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92976-7_7
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