Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women
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Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women

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Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women

About this book

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 CapĂĄ 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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Series Editors’ Foreword
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: Fractal Families
  8. Chapter 1: Becoming Family: Mayra Santos Febres’s Fe en disfraz and La amante de Gardel
  9. Chapter 2: Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro: Cimarronas, Love and Breaking the Silence
  10. Chapter 3: Yvonne Denis-Rosario: Fathers, Mothers, Fractals and Writing
  11. Chapter 4: Oshun and the Palenque-Plantation in Daughters of the Stone
  12. Conclusion: Afro-Borinquén Today and Tomorrow
  13. Appendix: Author Interviews
  14. Notes
  15. Glossary of Terms
  16. Works Cited