Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Iberian and Latin American Studies
ISBN-10
1786839105
ISBN-13
9781786839107
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Imprint
University of Wales Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 15th, 2022
Print length
264 Pages
Weight
460 grams
Dimensions
14.50 x 22.30 x 2.20 cms
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This book updates oppressive metaphors of Puerto Rico as a ‘big family’ in the prose of Afro-Puerto Rican authors Mayra Santos-Febres, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro and Yvonne Denis-Rosario. The new metaphor is a diverse, trans-national ‘fractal family’.
A study of the family in contemporary Puerto Rican fiction.
Colonial narratives described Puerto Rico as a familial plantation governed by white men and served by Black women, but Puerto Rican women writing today are changing the story. This book surveys diasporic fiction written by Afro-Puerto Rican women whose historical storytelling reimagines the islands collective family around particular active womensurvivors, creators, and activists. John T. Maddox IV argues that these storiesby such writers as Mayra Santos-Febres, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Arroyo Pizarro, and Yvonne Denis-Rosarioreveal imaginations committed to both the liberative and traumatic experiences of a new fractal family. Through close readings and interviews with the authors discussed, this book opens the door to a more fruitful conversation between the diaspora, homeland, and memory.
Colonial narratives described Puerto Rico as a familial plantation governed by white men and served by Black women, but Puerto Rican women writing today are changing the story. This book surveys diasporic fiction written by Afro-Puerto Rican women whose historical storytelling reimagines the islands collective family around particular active womensurvivors, creators, and activists. John T. Maddox IV argues that these storiesby such writers as Mayra Santos-Febres, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Arroyo Pizarro, and Yvonne Denis-Rosarioreveal imaginations committed to both the liberative and traumatic experiences of a new fractal family. Through close readings and interviews with the authors discussed, this book opens the door to a more fruitful conversation between the diaspora, homeland, and memory.
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