Affect, Archive, Archipelago - Puerto Ricos Sovereign Caribbean Lives

This bookexplores how Puerto Rico's affective archive of Caribbean relations, comprised of historical-political figures and communitarian, activist, and artistic work, has envisioned and embodied decolonization and sovereignty in relation to the archipelagic and the sea, thus furthering emancipatory and reparatory horizons.

List of contents

Introduction
Puerto Rico within the Caribbean, the Caribbean within Puerto Rico: An Affective Archive
Chapter 1
Political Tales: Archipelagic Pulsations from the 19th century to the Present
Chapter 2
Verbal Tales: Archipelagic Pulsations in Caribbean and Puerto Rican Literatures
Chapter 3
Bodily Tales: Archipelagic Pulsations in Puerto Rico's Live Arts and Activism
Conclusion
Towards Puerto Rico's Archipelagic, Decolonial Futures

About the author

Beatriz Llenin-Figeroa is adjunct assistant professor in the department of humanites at Mayagüez University

Summary

This timely book presents the contexts and perspectives needed for imagining possible decolonial futures for twenty-first century Puerto Rico.

Product details

• Authors: Beatriz Llenin Figueroa, Beatriz Llenín Figueroa, Beatriz Llenin-Figueroa, Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781538151440
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5144-0
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Rethinking the Island
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Latin America, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Geopolitics, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, Caribbean islands, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Teresa Hernández;Theater and Performance Studies