{"product_id":"fractal-families-in-new-millennium-narrative-by-afropuerto-rican-women-9781786839107","title":"Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eAfro-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. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 264 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 15 November 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: University of Wales Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 216 x 138 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781786839107\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John T. Maddox IV","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44105854812410,"sku":"9781786839107","price":63.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1671203087809_book.jpg?v=1671523425","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/fractal-families-in-new-millennium-narrative-by-afropuerto-rican-women-9781786839107","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}