Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes was based on the life and times of a man certifiably named Alonso Ramírez. This Rutgers edition is the most complete and authoritative bilingual edition of a work that grants us privileged access to the intricacies of early American subjectivity.
José F. Buscaglia is a professor and chair of the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of Undoing Empire: Race, and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean and two books in Spanish, one being the Spanish edition of the Infortunios.