Family Matters: Puerto Rican Women Authors On The Island And The Mainland (new World Studies)
by Marisel C. Moreno /
2012 / English / PDF
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Adopting a comparative and multidisciplinary approach to Puerto
Rican literature, Marisel Moreno juxtaposes narratives by insular
and U.S. Puerto Rican women authors in order to examine their
convergences and divergences. By showing how these writers use
the trope of family to question the tenets of racial and social
harmony, an idealized past, and patriarchal authority that
sustain the foundational myth of
Adopting a comparative and multidisciplinary approach to Puerto
Rican literature, Marisel Moreno juxtaposes narratives by insular
and U.S. Puerto Rican women authors in order to examine their
convergences and divergences. By showing how these writers use
the trope of family to question the tenets of racial and social
harmony, an idealized past, and patriarchal authority that
sustain the foundational myth ofla gran familia,
la gran familia, she
argues that this metaphor constitutes an overlooked literary
contact zone between narratives from both sides. Moreno proposes
the recognition of a "transinsular" corpus to reflect the
increasingly transnational character of the Puerto Rican
population and addresses the need to broaden the literary canon
in order to include the diaspora. Drawing on the fields of
historiography, cultural studies, and gender studies, the author
defies the tendency to examine these literary bodies
independently of one another and therefore aims to present a more
nuanced and holistic vision of this literature.
she
argues that this metaphor constitutes an overlooked literary
contact zone between narratives from both sides. Moreno proposes
the recognition of a "transinsular" corpus to reflect the
increasingly transnational character of the Puerto Rican
population and addresses the need to broaden the literary canon
in order to include the diaspora. Drawing on the fields of
historiography, cultural studies, and gender studies, the author
defies the tendency to examine these literary bodies
independently of one another and therefore aims to present a more
nuanced and holistic vision of this literature.