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

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

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Afro-Puerto Rican women have been rewriting the island's and diaspora's foundational myths to create a new vision of family as a national allegory that includes powerful Black protagonists. Novelists Mayra Santos-Febres and Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, short story writers Arroyo Pizarros las Negras and Yvonne Denis-Rosarios Capáprieto, and Llanos-Figueroa's Daughters of the Stone remake the 'great Puerto Rican family to give greater agency to Afro-Puerto Ricans and include the diaspora in a 'fractal family.

Format: Hardback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 15 November 2022
Publisher: University of Wales Press


Since 2007, Afro-Puerto Rican women have been rewriting 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 diasporas history, beginning with trans-Atlantic slavery. Santos-Febres allegories use sadomasochism and healing in her novels Fe en disfraz and La amante de Gardel. Short story writers Arroyo Pizarros Las Negras and Yvonne Denis-Rosarios 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-Figueroas Daughters of the Stone envisions 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.


Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781786839107

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