Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-236) and index.
Contents:
Conclusion: Afro-Borinquén Today and Tomorrow. Becoming Family: Mayra Santos Febres's Fe en disfraz and La amante de Gardel -- Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro: Cimarronas, Love and Breaking the Silence -- Yvonne Denis-Rosario: Fathers, Mothers, Fractals and Writing -- Oshun and the Palenque-Plantation in Daughters of the Stone -- Conclusion: Afro-Borinquén Today and Tomorrow.
Summary:
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. -- Provided by publisher.
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