Healing Memories - Puerto Rican Women's Literature in the United States

Offers an exploration of the ways in which women writers of the Puerto Rican diaspora use their literary works to document the historical experiences of Puerto Rican women. These voices often have been marginalized in the larger national historical narrative of the US. At the same time, they have created counter-histories that are medicinal in the sense that they heal the trauma of silence and oppression.

About the author

Elizabeth Garcia is currently teaching courses in the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at Wesleyan University . She has also taught courses in Latino/a Studies with a focus on history, cultural studies, and literature.

Summary

How literature challenges the historical methodologies that have silenced the American experience of Puerto Rican women.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Garcia
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780822965640
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6564-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 201 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 227 g
• Series: Latino and Latin American Prof; Latino and Latin American Profiles; Latino and Latin American Profiles; Latinx and Latin American Prof; Latinx and Latin American Profiles
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies