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.
| ISBN: | 9781786839107 |
| Publication date: | 15th November 2022 |
| Author: | John Thomas Maddox |
| Publisher: | University of Wales Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 257 pages |
| Series: | Iberian and Latin American Studies |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Gender studies: women and girls Ethnic studies Slavery and abolition of slavery |
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.
Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism, Gender studies: women and girls, Ethnic studies, Slavery and abolition of slavery
Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women is available in Hardback
Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women was written by John Thomas Maddox and published by University of Wales Press
Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women has 257 pages
Yes it is part of Iberian and Latin American Studies series
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