Decolonial Puerto Rican women's writings : subversion in the flesh /: subversion in the flesh. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Roberta Hurtado.
• Authors: Hurtado, Roberta
• Contents: Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Puerto Rico's History and the Island/Mainland Divide; The Literary Arts and Sentient-Flesh; Literary Arts and the "Body"; Decolonial Puerto Rican Women's Writings: Subversion in the Flesh and Structure; Conclusion; References; Enfleshment: Beneath the Body Lies Flesh; Delineating "Bodies" in Coloniality's Discourse; Distances Between "Bodies" and "Flesh"; Bringing Flesh to the Bones of Experience; Enfleshment's Bones; References; Flesh-Memories: Bearing Witness to Trauma and Survival; Vulnerable "Bodies"; Delineating Objects Flesh-MemoryNarrative Voice of Sentient-Flesh; References; Sentient Narratives: Similes, Metaphors, and Dusmic Poetics Within the Senses; Metaphors, Similes, and the Need to Heal; Ruptures and the Need for Distinction; Sentient-Flesh and Dusmic Healing; Literary Devices of the Senses; References; Envisioning Empowerment: Recodifying the Meaning of Historical Trauma; Sentient-Flesh In/Out of Coloniality; Navigating Coloniality's Mechanisms; Intergenerational Empowerment in the Sentient-Flesh; Survivor into Healing; References Strategic Decolonization: Methods for Resistance and Community HealingSentient-Flesh Discourses; Healing Discourses; Discourses of Change; Sentient-Flesh Discourse; References; Conclusion: Sentient-Flesh Subversions; References; Index
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809/.89729; Caribbean literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women's studies -- Puerto Rico; Puerto Rican women; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Puerto Rico -- History; Puerto Rico -- Social conditions; Puerto Rico; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030057312; 3030057313
• Related ISBNs: 9783030057305
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: On-line resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 10, 2019)
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