Bernardo Vega's Manuscript ("La familia Farallón") and the Omitted Pages from the Edited Memorias.

This interdisciplinary comparative appraisal of Bernardo Vega's manuscript of "La familia Farallón" and César Andreu Iglesias's edited Memorias de Bernardo Vega is grounded on a Puerto Rican diasporic gaze that stresses the significance and transcendence of recovering the neglected and understudied historical legacy about the mid-nineteenth century origins and evolution of the New York Puerto Rican community. It examines Vega's stated intentions for writing a manuscript that intertwines history and fiction. Moreover, it analyzes and contextualizes the more substantive differences between the two texts and underlines the relevance of some of the pages and parts of the manuscript omitted from Memorias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]