Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women by Maddox IV, John T.

Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781786839107)

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Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women by Maddox IV, John T.

Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women

$82.00
Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women by Maddox IV, John T.

Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women

$82.00
Format: Hardcover
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A study of the family in contemporary Puerto Rican fiction.

Colonial narratives described Puerto Rico as a familial plantation governed by white men and served by Black women, but Puerto Rican women writing today are changing the story. This book surveys diasporic fiction written by Afro-Puerto Rican women whose historical storytelling reimagines the island's collective family around particular active women--survivors, creators, and activists. John T. Maddox IV argues that these stories--by such writers as Mayra Santos-Febres, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Arroyo Pizarro, and Yvonne Denis-Rosario--reveal imaginations committed to both the liberative and traumatic experiences of a new "fractal family." Through close readings and interviews with the authors discussed, this book opens the door to a more fruitful conversation between the diaspora, homeland, and memory.

Author: John T. Maddox IV
ISBN-10: 1786839105
ISBN-13: 9781786839107
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2023
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d
By John T. Maddox IV
By John T. Maddox IV
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John T. Maddox IV is associate professor of Spanish and African American studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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