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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Enfleshment: Beneath the Body Lies Flesh
• 3. Flesh-Memories: Bearing Witness to Trauma and Survival
• 4. Sentient Narratives: Similes, Metaphors, and Dusmic Poetics within the Senses
• 5. Envisioning Empowerment: Recodifying the Meaning of Historical Trauma
• 6. Strategic Decolonization: Methods for Resistance and Community Healing
• 7.Conclusion: Sentient Flesh Subversions.