Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women
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| Title: | Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | John T. Maddox IV |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | American literature--Puerto Rican authors--History and criticism, Puerto Rican literature--Women authors--History and criticism, Families in literature, Black people in literature |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9781786839114 9781786839121 |
