One of the richest aspects of the Memoirs of Bernardo Vega (Spanish edition, 1977; English edition, 1984) is its author’s almost obsessive awareness with the spatiality of his surroundings, for Vega constantly mentions specific city addresses, street intersections, locales of public meetings and happenings, detailed routes of his commutes and promenades, etc. In short, Vega’s memoirs are also, among other things, an eminently spatial text.

A ‘spatially aware’ reading of the Memoirs of Bernardo Vega will show how Bernardo Vega was in fact ‘mapping out’, claiming geographic ownership of significant parts of New York City for the Puerto Rican community.

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