Cuando Latinoamérica llegó a Puerto Rico: La comunidad imaginada puertorriqueña en Memoria de Rosario Ferré.

The article focuses on Rosario Ferré’s 2012 autobiographical work *Memoria*, which critically examines the complex identity and positionality of Puerto Rico’s elite amid the island’s colonial history with Spain and the United States. Ferré portrays the Puerto Rican upper class as negotiating its identity through three cultural and political axes—Europe, the United States, and Latin America—while simultaneously distancing itself from Latin America, which is marginalized as uncivilized and opposed to modernity. Through family anecdotes and reflections, *Memoria* reveals how this elite internalizes colonial hierarchies, embracing Euro-American cultural models and repressing Latin American heritage, resulting in a fragmented identity. The text also explores the contrasting figures of two domestic workers, Gilda and Guanime, whose presence challenges and exposes the racial, social, and cultural boundaries upheld by the elite, highlighting ongoing colonial and epistemic violences within Puerto Rican society.