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Decolonial Puerto Rican Women's Writings

Subversion in the Flesh

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Authors:
  1. Roberta Hurtado

    1. State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, USA

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  • Takes an interdisciplinary approach by drawing on fields beyond literary studies, such as cognitive and neurobiology studies
  • Represents one of the few literary analysis texts for Puerto Rican women’s literature in the diaspora
  • Offers a new alternative to Embodiment Studies, Post-Structuralism, and Feminist Theories

Part of the book series: Literatures of the Americas (LOA)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Roberta Hurtado
    Pages 1-27

  3. Enfleshment: Beneath the Body Lies Flesh

    • Roberta Hurtado
    Pages 29-47

  4. Flesh-Memories: Bearing Witness to Trauma and Survival

    • Roberta Hurtado
    Pages 49-68

  5. Sentient Narratives: Similes, Metaphors, and Dusmic Poetics Within the Senses

    • Roberta Hurtado
    Pages 69-88

  6. Envisioning Empowerment: Recodifying the Meaning of Historical Trauma

    • Roberta Hurtado
    Pages 89-110

  7. Strategic Decolonization: Methods for Resistance and Community Healing

    • Roberta Hurtado
    Pages 111-130

  8. Conclusion: Sentient-Flesh Subversions

    • Roberta Hurtado
    Pages 131-137

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 139-157
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About this book

This book explores representations of sentient-flesh — flesh that holds consciousness of being — in Puerto Rican women’s literature. It considers how different literary devices can participate in the decolonization of the flesh as it is obfuscated by mappings of the 'body' from the Enlightenment era and colonial endeavors. Drawing on studies of cognitive development and epigenetics to identify how sentient-flesh creates knowledge of power and navigates methods of subversion for social justice, this book grapples with the question of how Puerto Rican women, living in the nation of their colonizer, manifest an identity that exists beyond the scope of colonization. It makes the case for a change in perspective that illustrates the conceptual shift from survivors to thrivers to educators. To do so, it draws upon Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa’s theory in the flesh; Iris Lopez’s theories of trauma-knowledge; and María Lugones’s concept of 'world travelers' to retain the corporeal flesh and physical location in Latinas’ attempts to write subversion under U.S. colonization across racial, cultural, and ethnic boundaries, as well as the gendered-sexuality barriers identified by Emma Pérez. This project builds on their work to frame Latina literature within a new discussion of how corporeal, memory, and sentient experiences of identity must center sentient-flesh as the source of decolonial consciousness rather than relapsing into discourses of the 'body'.

Authors and Affiliations

  • State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, USA

    Roberta Hurtado

About the author

Roberta Hurtado is Assistant Professor of Latina/o/x Literature and Culture at SUNY Oswego, USA. She completed her graduate work at the University of Texas San Antonio. She has published with journals such as Chiricú, Label Me Latina/o, and El Mundo Zurdo.

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