Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa

Affect, Archive, Archipelago

Puerto Rico's Sovereign Caribbean Lives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 637g
• ISBN-13: 9781538151440
• ISBN-10: 1538151448
• Artikelnr.: 63155395

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Note of Gratitude
Note on the Text
List of Illustrations
Prelude: An Unsheltered Walk-Swim of a Book, or For the Love of Us
The Call
Introduction: Waters Coming Ashore, Affects Creating Archives, Islands
Touching Each Other
PART I: PERFORMATIVE POLITICS IN PUERTO RICO'S AFFECTIVE ARCHIVE OF
CARIBBEAN RELATIONS
1 Feeling the Archipelagic Confederation: Ramón Emeterio Betances and the
Confederación Antillana
Hunted Flesh
2 Embodying Oceanic Sovereignties: Luisa Capetillo and the Tribuna on the
Street
Subversive Walk
3 Commanding the Islands' Liberation: Pedro Albizu Campos and the Partido
Nacionalista
Resounding Voice
PART II: POLITICAL PERFORMANCES IN PUERTO RICO'S AFFECTIVE ARCHIVE OF
CARIBBEAN RELATIONS
4 Tidal Relations of Art, Struggle, and Liberation: Agua, Sol y Sereno,
Amigxs del MAR, Comuna Caribe, Mujeres que Abrazan la Mar, and Coalición 8M
Embracing Coast
5 Sea, Salt, Survive: Teresa Hernández's Multitudinously Small Art
Overflowing Sea
Coda: The Liquid Homeland of