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La expresión poética de Shirley Campbell Barr y Mayra Santos Febres

Autor: Sara Carini

Número de Páginas: 259

Esta monografía se plantea el análisis de los patrones temáticos y poéticos que definen la poesía de Shirley Campbell Barr y Mayra Santos Febres. Los resultados de la investigación permiten destacar los puntos de contacto entre la producción de ambas autoras, pero también delinean los vínculos que la producción de las dos poetas mantiene con la producción literaria del marco afrodescendiente. Al mismo tiempo, el estudio aclara los elementos por los cuales su poesía puede ser incluida en la reciente categoría analítica de 'literatura de la afrodescendencia'.

Boat people

Autor: Mayra Santos-febres

Número de Páginas: 60

Los nuevos caníbales

Autor: Marilyn Bobes León

Número de Páginas: 268

Third volume in an anthology focused on recent short stories from the Caribbean. This book contains 12 writers of "micro-stories" each from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.

Channeling Knowledges

Autor: Rebeca L. Hey-colón

Número de Páginas: 229

2024 Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/ Dominican Republic section, Latin American Studies Association How water enables Caribbean and Latinx writers to reconnect to their pasts, presents, and futures. Water is often tasked with upholding division through the imposition of geopolitical borders. We see this in the construction of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo on the US-Mexico border, as well as in how the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean are used to delineate the limits of US territory. In stark contrast to this divisive view, Afro-diasporic religions conceive of water as a place of connection; it is where spiritual entities and ancestors reside, and where knowledge awaits. Departing from the premise that water encourages confluence through the sustainment of contradiction, Channeling Knowledges fathoms water’s depth and breadth in the work of Latinx and Caribbean creators such as Mayra Santos-Febres, Rita Indiana, Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa, and the Border of Lights collective. Combining methodologies from literary studies, anthropology, history, and religious studies, Rebeca L. Hey-Colón’s interdisciplinary study traces how Latinx and Caribbean cultural...

The Borders of Dominicanidad

Autor: Lorgia García Peña

Número de Páginas: 304

In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic Haitians, and Dominicans living abroad have contested these dominant narratives and their violent, silencing, and exclusionary effects. Centering the role of U.S. imperialism in drawing racial borders between Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the United States, she analyzes musical, visual, artistic, and literary representations of foundational moments in the history of the Dominican Republic: the murder of three girls and their father in 1822; the criminalization of Afro-religious practice during the U.S. occupation between 1916 and 1924; the massacre of more than 20,000 people on the Dominican-Haitian border in 1937; and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. García-Peña also considers the contemporary emergence of a broader Dominican consciousness among artists and intellectuals that offers alternative perspectives to questions of identity as well as the means to make audible the voices ...

Crossing Waters

Autor: Marisel C. Moreno

Número de Páginas: 422

2023 Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/ Dominican Republic section (LASA) 2023 Winner, Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award, Caribbean Studies Association An innovative study of the artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans invariably focus on the southern US border, but most migrants never cross that arbitrary line. Instead, many travel, via water, among the Caribbean islands. The first study to examine literary and artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean, Crossing Waters relates a journey that remains silenced and largely unknown. Analyzing works by novelists, short-story writers, poets, and visual artists replete with references to drowning and echoes of the Middle Passage, Marisel Moreno shines a spotlight on the plight that these migrants face. In some cases, Puerto Rico takes on a new role as a stepping-stone to the continental United States and the society migrants will join there. Meanwhile the land border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the only terrestrial border in the Hispanophone Caribbean, emerges...

Literature as an Art Form - Evolving Intermedial Literary Landscape

Autor: Asunción López-varela Azcárate

Número de Páginas: 278

Literature as an Art Form – Evolving Intermedial Literary Landscape brings together sixteen scholarly contributions that explore literature’s ongoing transformation across media, cultures, and technologies. This anthology traces the dynamic interplay between literature and visual, sonic, performative, and algorithmic forms, ranging from illuminated manuscripts and oral traditions to digital texts and anime. Rejecting the notion of literature as a fixed verbal art, the chapters highlight its status as a transmedial, evolving practice, shaped by and shaping the environments in which it is situated. Each essay examines how literature migrates across modalities, revealing it as a mutable process of techno-poïesis. Together, they offer a compelling vision of literature not as an autonomous artefact, but as a fluid cultural phenomenon whose conditions of existence are inseparable from intermedial exchange.

Excited Delirium

Autor: Aisha M. Beliso-de Jesús

Número de Páginas: 204

In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed “cult expert” of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called “excited delirium syndrome.” Soon, medical examiners began using the syndrome regularly to describe the deaths of Black men and women during interactions with police. Police and medical examiners claimed that Black people with so-called excited delirium exhibited superhuman strength induced from narcotics abuse. It was fatal heart failure that killed them, examiners said, not forceful police restraints. In Excited Delirium, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús examines this fabricated medical diagnosis and its use to justify and erase police violence against Black and Brown communities. Exposing excited delirium syndrome’s flawed diagnostic criteria, she outlines its inextricable ties to the criminalization of Afro-Latiné religions. Beliso-De Jesús demonstrates that it is yet a further example of the systemic racism that pervades law enforcement in which the culpability for state violence is shifted from the state onto its victims. In so doing, she furthers understanding of the complex layers of medicalized state-sanctioned violence...

The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature

Autor: John Morán González , Laura Lomas

Número de Páginas: 858

The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature emphasizes the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not simply as a US ethnic phenomenon but more broadly as an important element of a trans-American literary imagination. Engaging with the dynamics of migration, linguistic and cultural translation, and the uneven distribution of resources across the Americas that characterize Latina/o literature, the essays in this History provide a critical overview of key texts, authors, themes, and contexts as discussed by leading scholars in the field. This book demonstrates the relevance of Latina/o literature for a world defined by the migration of people, commodities, and cultural expressions.

Women and Migration

Autor: Deborah Willis , Ellyn Toscano , Kalia Brooks Nelson

Número de Páginas: 431

The essays in this book chart how women’s profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women’s perspectives, covering the Caribbean Diaspora, refugees and slavery through the various lenses of politics and war, love and family. The contributors, which include academics and artists, offer both personal and critical points of view on the artistic and historical repositories of these experiences. Selfies, motherhood, violence and Hollywood all feature in this substantial treasure-trove of women’s joy and suffering, disaster and delight, place, memory and identity. This collection appeals to artists and scholars of the humanities, particularly within the social sciences; though there is much to recommend it to creatives seeking inspiration or counsel on the issue of migratory experiences.

Seis ensayos sobre narrativa dominicana contemporánea

Autor: Rita De Maeseneer

Número de Páginas: 266

Sirena Selena vestida de pena

Autor: Mayra Santos-febres

Número de Páginas: 28

Sirena Selena vestida de pena ("Syren Selena, dressed in sorrow" might be a fair translation) tells the story of Leocadio, formerly a drug addicted child -owner of an extraordinary bolero singing voice- rescued from the streets of Puerto Rico and transformed by his rescuer ?Martha Divine? into Sirena Selena, a mesmerizing trans vestite singer-entertainer, both characters setting their respective hopes in making a fortune to escape a haphazard life. The main character represents the enigma of seduction, beautiful and monstrous, in an opposition between Truth and Reality. To her rescuer the child must "become who she really is", because the only way she will be able to harmonize his/her interior and exterior self is by being reborn as the diva.Ironically truth and harmony stem from the bifurcated nature of a mythical figure -half human, half monster- unstoppable in its seduction. The tragic aspect arises from Sirena Selena's awareness that his/her attraction resides equally in the awesome perfection of her presence and in the knowledge that it is merely a performance. The fluent and musical Spanish prose of Sirena Selena constitutes a rare reading pleasure, both for the casual...

Migrant and Tourist Encounters

Autor: Andrea Easley Morris

Número de Páginas: 222

Migrant and Tourist Encounters: The Ethics of Im/mobility in 21st Century Dominican and Cuban Cultures analyzes the effects of clashing flows of voluntary and involuntary travelers to and from these countries due to an increase in migration and tourism during the last three decades. I compare the ways in which literary works and films reflect on and critique the power relations and ethics of im/mobility and encounter, both on the islands and in destinations abroad. The works draw attention to the interconnectedness of migration, tourism, and other forms of travel as well as immobility, and portray growing local and global inequalities through characters’ disparate access to free, voluntary movement. I consider how the works respond to the question of the moral potential of encounters produced by im/mobilities and the possibility of connection across differences. I argue that Dominican and Cuban artists not only critique neo-colonial paradigms of power and im/mobility, but envision and enact strategies for belonging and, in some cases, suggest a path toward de-colonial cosmopolitanism.

The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theater and Performance

Autor: Camilla Stevens

Número de Páginas: 279

I Am My Own Path

Autor: Vanessa Pérez-rosario

Número de Páginas: 491

A definitive, bilingual selection of poetry, essays, and letters by one of Puerto Rico’s most beloved poets. Julia de Burgos (1914–1953) is best known for her poetry, but she is also an important cultural figure famous for her commitment to social justice, feminist ideas, and the independence of Puerto Rico. Admirers cultivated her legacy to bring to light the real Julia de Burgos, the woman behind the public figure, which this remarkable collection further illuminates by supplying a complex portrait using her own powerful and imaginative words. Beginning with a critical introduction to Burgos's life and work, Vanessa Pérez-Rosario then presents a selection of poems, essays, and letters, that offer a glimpse into this formidable talent and intellect. Burgos left Puerto Rico, spending the 1940s in both New York City and Havana, where she cultivated a new kind of identity refracted through her pathbreaking work as a poet and journalist. Both poetry and prose are alive with politically charged insights into the struggle of national liberation, literary creation, and being a woman in a patriarchal society. I Am My Own Path is essential reading for anyone interested in Puerto...

Encanto o espanto?

Autor: Kristian Van Haesendonck

Número de Páginas: 260

Aúna la teoría psicoanalítica sobre la abyección, los discursos recientes sobre la identidad nacional y la lectura detenida de tres novelas puertorriqueñas contemporáneas para urdir un nuevo acercamiento a la teoría poscolonial.

Scarred Landscapes

Autor: Stephanie Lewthwaite

Número de Páginas: 290

Scarred Landscapes is a groundbreaking exploration of the rich and complex works of Caribbean Latinx artists. Scholar Stephanie Lewthwaite documents the work of ten influential artists of Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican descent, based in New York City from the 1970s to the present. Through their diverse practices, including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation, video, and performance art, these artists confront the legacies of colonial trauma and their own experiences of diasporic unbelonging and artworld marginality. The book combines formal analysis with artist testimony, exhibition histories, and theoretical frameworks from trauma, memory, and archipelagic studies, to offer a multifaceted examination of Caribbean Latinx art. Lewthwaite explores how these artists practice “archipelagic memory,” a generative, decolonial, and coalitional form of memory work that envisions alternative modes of belonging in difference and solidarity with others. By connecting different people, pasts, and places, Caribbean Latinx artists expose the reverberations of trauma while imagining other worlds beyond it. This work puts Caribbean Latinx artists at the center of...

Zwischen De- und Reterritorialisierung

Autor: Anne Brüske

Número de Páginas: 648

US-karibische Diasporaliteraturen der 2000er-Jahre konstituieren soziale Räume als Diasporaräume. An den literarischen Raumproduktionen in Werken von Ernesto Quiñónez, Achy Obejas, Edwidge Danticat und Junot Díaz lässt sich erkennen, so eine zentrale These, wie diese Literaturen im Spagat sich selbst, ihre Verfasserinnen und Verfasser sowie ihre ethnischen Gemeinschaften zwischen den USA und der Karibik verorten. Texte wie Bodega Dreams, Days of Awe, The Dew Breaker und The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao positionieren sich über ihre Erzählräume und erzählten Räume, ihre Raumsemantik und ihre Intertextualität im Spannungsfeld von De- und Reterritorialisierung. Sie setzen sich mit der Geschichte ihrer karibischen «Herkunftsländer» (Puerto Rico, Kuba, Haiti, Dominikanische Republik) und ihrer ethnischen Gruppen in den USA auseinander. Sie verhandeln, wie diese Geschichte aus der Perspektive der Postmemoria-Generation aufzuarbeiten ist, wie diese Perspektive das «Ursprungsland» erst als erlebt-erlittenen Raum produziert und in welchem Verhältnis im Heimatland verbliebene und in der Diaspora lebende Subjekte zueinanderstehen. Die Studie erarbeitet entlang der...

Querellas de las mujeres: Pasado y presente

Autor: Caterina Duraccio

Número de Páginas: 446

Feminist Spiritualities

Autor: Joshua R. Deckman

Número de Páginas: 246

Feminist Spiritualities aims to complicate contemporary debates surrounding Black/Latinx experiences within a critical framework of decolonial thought, women of color feminisms, politicized emotional structures, and anti-imperial politics. Joshua R. Deckman considers literary and cultural productions from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, and their diasporas in the United States, exploring epistemic spaces that have historically been marked as irrational and inconsequential for the production of knowledge—including social media posts, song lyrics, public writings, speeches, and personal interviews. Analyzing works by Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Mayra Santos-Febres, Rita Indiana Hernández, Ana-Maurine Lara, Elizabeth Acevedo, María Teresa Fernández, Nitty Scott, Lxs Krudxs Cubensi, and Ibeyi, Deckman shows how these authors develop afro-epistemologies grounded in Caribbean feminist spiritualities and manifest a commitment to finding joy and love in difference. Literary, anthropological, and more, Feminist Spiritualities weaves through a series of fields and methodologies in an undisciplined way to contribute new close readings of recent works and fresh assessments...

Les Langues néo-latines

Número de Páginas: 744

Any Wednesday I'm Yours

Autor: Mayra Santos-febres

Número de Páginas: 292

Julián Castrodad, ex-reporter and aspiring novelist, takes a job working the night shift at the Motel Tulán. The guest go largely unnoticed until the morning one is found dead and two are gone missing.

San Juan Noir

Autor: Mayra Santos-febres

Número de Páginas: 185

Puerto Rico's capital city enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by one of San Juan's best-known authors. "A welcomed addition to the publisher's popular noir series, San Juan Noir has the distinction of being issued in two editions, English and Spanish, to more accurately reflect the Caribbean island's bilingual culture. Editor Santos-Febres gathers a varied collection of stories she expects will 'reveal a side of Puerto Rico otherwise obscured by the tourist trade and preconception.'" — NBC News Latino Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Wilfredo J. Burgos Matos, Ernesto Quiñonez, Mayra Santos-Febres, José Rabelo, Luis Negrón, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Ana María Fuster Lavín, Janette Becerra, Manolo Núñez Negrón, Tere Dávila, Edmaris Carazo, Alejandro Álvarez Nieves, Charlie Vázquez, and Manuel A. Meléndez. Translated by Will Vanderhyden. From the introduction by Mayra Santos-Febres: "Puerto Rico is often portrayed as sandy beaches, casinos, luxury hotels, relaxation,...

Sirena Selena

Autor: Mayra Santos-febres

Número de Páginas: 178

From the author of Urban Oracles comes Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena: somewhere between "The Blue Angel" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" rises the legend of Sirena Selena, the diva-siren of the Caribbean whose boleros seduce and torment whoever dares listen. Discovered by Martha Divine in the backstreets of San Juan, picking over garbage, drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the listener, a fifteen year old hustler is transformed into Sirena Selena, a diva whose uncanny beauty and irrisistable voice will be their ticket to fame and fortune. Auditioning for one of the luxury hotels in the Dominican Republic, Selena casts her spell over Hugo Graubel, one of the hotel's rich investors. Graubel is a powerful man in the Republic, married with children. Silena, determined to escape the poverty and abuse s/he suffered as a child, engages Graubel in a long seduction in this mordant, intensely lyrical tragi-comedy - part masque, part cabaret - about identity (class, race, gender) and "the hunger and desire to be other things."

Defining Arrival

Autor: Kevin Alarcon

Número de Páginas: 90

Crossing Sex and Gender in Latin America

Autor: V. Lewis

Número de Páginas: 478

Signifying "others" or signs of life? This book critically examines the ways in which crossing sex and gender is imagined in key cultural texts from contemporary Latin America. Unlike previous studies, Crossing Sex and Gender in Latin America does not hold that sexually diverse figures are always and only performative or allegorical and instead places the accent on questions of the presence or absence of an account of subjectivity in contemporary representation. Via analysis of selected films and literary works of Reinaldo Arenas, Mayra Santos-Febres, Pedro Lemebel, among others, the author reflects on the political implications of recent visions (1985-2005).

Jadeante y sudorosa

Autor: Mayra Santos-febres

Número de Páginas: 68

Collection of chronicles. Mayra Santos-Febres (1966) is a well-known and prolific Puerto Rican contemporary writer. She has published three poetry collections, Anamú y manigua (1991); El orden escapado (1991) y Boat People (2005). In 1994 she won the Letras de Oro (Miami / España) literary competition with her first books of short stories Pez de vidrio. She also published a second book of short stories, El cuerpo correcto, in 1998. Her first novel, Sirena Selena vestida de pena (2000), has been translated into English, Italian and French and was selected as a finalist for the "Premio Rómulo Gallegos de Novela" (2001). She has also published Cualquier miércoles soy tuya (novela, 2002), Nuestra señora de la noche (novela, 2006 - finalist of the Premio Primavera 2006 awarded by Espasa Calpe, Spain), Fe en disfraz (novela, 2009), Sobre piel y papel (2011), and La amante de Gardel (2015).

Seis ensayos sobre narrativa dominicana contemporánea

Autor: Rita De Maeseneer

Número de Páginas: 266