Title Healing memories : Puerto Rican women's literature in the United States / Elizabeth Garcia

Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource Series Latinx and Latin American profiles Contents Introduction. "La cultural cura": healing historical absences -- The making of a curandera historian: Aurora Levins Morales -- Double victory for Puerto Rican women too: Nicholasa Mohr's Nilda -- Mending broken memories: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent dancing: a partial -- Remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood -- "Degrees of puertoricanness": Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican -- Conclusion. Who tells your story?: situating diasporican women's literature Summary "Using an interdisciplinary approach, Healing Memories analyzes the ways that Puerto Rican women authors use their literary works to challenge historical methodologies that have silenced the historical experiences of Puerto Rican women in the United States. Following Aurora Levins Morales's alternative historical methodology she calls 'curandera history, ' this work analyzes the literary work of authors, including Aurora Levins Morales, Nicholasa Mohr, Esmeralda Santiago, and Judith Ortiz Cofer, and the ways they create medicinal histories that not only document the experiences of migrant women but also heal the trauma of their erasure from mainstream national history. Each analytical chapter focuses on the various methods used by each author including using the literary space as an archive, reclaiming memory, and (re)writing cultural history, all through a feminist lens that centers the voices and experiences of Puerto Rican women"-- Provided by publisher Notes Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Berkeley, 2002, titled "Medicinal histories" : Puerto Rican women's writings in the United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 08, 2019) Subject American literature -- Puerto Rican authors -- History and criticism Puerto Rican literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Puerto Rican women -- United States -- Intellectual life Puerto Ricans in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature -- Puerto Rican authors American literature -- Women authors Feminism and literature Puerto Rican literature -- Women authors Puerto Ricans in literature Women and literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822986393 0822986396

Other Titles Medicinal histories

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