Since 2007, Afro-Puerto Rican women have been revising the
foundational myths of the island and the diaspora to create a new
vision of family as a national allegory that includes powerful
Black protagonists. Novelists Mayra Santos-Febres and Dahlma
Llanos-Figueroa tell the diaspora’s history, beginning with
trans-Atlantic slavery. Santos-Febres’s allegories use
sadomasochism and healing in the novels Fe en disfraz and La amante
de Gardel. Short story writers Arroyo Pizarro’s las Negras and
Yvonne Denis-Rosario’s Capá prieto chronicle the struggle to
create and preserve an empowering history of slavery and Black
people on the island and in the diaspora. Llanos-Figueroa’s
Daughters of the Stone envisages a sugar plantation in which
Afrodescendants are free and respected. They remake the ‘great
Puerto Rican family’ to give greater agency to Afro-Puerto Ricans
and include the diaspora in a ‘fractal family’. While
liberating, these novels also depict the traumas wrought by both
the maintenance and the dissolution of patriarchal,
heteronormative, colonial and racist structures.
General
| Imprint: |
University Of Wales Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Iberian and Latin American Studies |
| Release date: |
November 2022 |
| First published: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
John T. Maddox Iv
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 138 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
264 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78683-910-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-78683-910-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781786839107 |
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