Decolonial Puerto Rican Women's Writings Subversion in the Flesh /

• Main Author: Hurtado, Roberta (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Literatures of the Americas
• Subjects: Latin American literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Culture.; Gender.; Latin American/Caribbean Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Culture and Gender.

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 En...