{"id":20981,"date":"2020-03-18T16:58:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/?p=20981"},"modified":"2020-04-03T13:22:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T17:22:58","slug":"you-also-make-way-when-youre-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/en\/you-also-make-way-when-youre-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"You Also Make Way When You\u2019re Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The director of Sagrado\u2019s Interdisciplinary School of Humanistic and Social Studies, Dr. Anuchka Ramos Ruiz, was the speaker of the 4th<\/sup> International Talk.<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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By Liz Yanira Del Valle
Collaborator<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spanish poet Antonio Machado left us some famous verses: \u201ccaminante\nno hay camino, se hace camino al andar\u201d (Walker, there is no path; you make the\npath as you walk). In such walking, Caribbean writer from Ponce, Puerto Rico,\nDr. Anuchka Ramos Ruiz, insists from her own experience that \u201cgetting lost is\nalso to make way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About that coming and going, the director of the Interdisciplinary Faculty of Humanistic and Social Studies (FIEHS) also spoke at the 4th International Talk entitled \u201cGetting lost is also the way: creative writing, memory and identity in my international experience\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt’s okay to go astray from time to time,\u201d \u201cAlterations are\npart of the history we build,\u201d \u201cThe important thing will be to reach the destination,\nbut it\u2019s more important to know that fate, just as our memories, is also\nmutant: it can always change,\u201d she said after summarizing part of her student history\nbetween Spain and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the voice of this former Sagrado student, both to\ndiscover oneself and to write, \u201cyou have to go out into the world; more\nimportantly, we have to leave the world we invent for ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Doctor in Culture and Literature Studies from the\nUniversity of Santiago de Compostela discovered herself as Puerto Rican and\nCaribbean-born precisely far from her homeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy international experiences allowed me to \u2018lose myself\u2019 and \u2018discover myself\u2019: to understand that, without being insular, to think, live, love and produce in an islander, Puerto Rican, and Caribbean key is a way of being that is as valid as any other, as urgent as any other, as necessary [to be written] as any other,\u201d said the writer, who confessed that, after spending a year pursuing a second doctorate at the prestigious University of Notre Dame in Indiana, she decided to return to the Island.<\/p>Dr. Anuchka Ramos Ruiz, director of the FIEHS <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Returning took time, because at first it felt like failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI write about all the places I lived in and those I visited\nto convey how I felt them from my own subjectivity, and to accompany those who\nhave been afraid to leave or stay on this island; because either of those two\ndecisions is fine,\u201d said the author of the novel \u201cNo me quieras<\/em>\u201d (Don’t love me) and the poetry book \u201cAutopista<\/em>\u201d (Highway).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn my case, leaving was also a way to go home (although I got\nlost many other times before arriving). In my writing proposal, I investigate\nfamily memory, post-memory, and oral tradition as forms of the unknown,\u201d said\nthe author, who wrote her books outside Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, she commented that her novel was the product of not\nbeing in that new destination she had chosen, referring to Galicia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy identity, my tastes, my ideas, and my relationships had been designed based on a Puerto Rican enclave from which I had so much wanted to leave.\u201d<\/p>Dr. Anuchka Ramos Ruiz <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The writer read fragments of her novel and her poetry book before the crowded audience. She also advised Sagrado students to have, to the extent that they can, study or work experiences abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFor better or worse, it is important to distance oneself from thought, from territory. That abstraction is necessary. It is a privilege, we don’t know exactly why, but it is\u201d, she concluded. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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