With the Eyes of a Woman

Written in 1892, the two stories published here, in the original Spanish with page by page translation by Myriam Borges Thompson, not only have their place in Puerto Rican literature and in the biography and artistic development of the author Carmela Eulate, but they are also a contribution to intellectual history, family history, women’s history, gender studies, and generational studies. Their focus on family dynamics and relationships between the generations and with in-laws—interplaying with the force of beliefs—provides social and cultural historians with views as seen through a sensitive lens of some of the hardest relationships to recreate.  The sensitivity of the lens is crucial—too often insight is impossible because characters are rendered as cultural stereotypes.