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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Hurtado, Roberta (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Literatures of the Americas
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.