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Writing Words, Wearing Wounds: Race and Gender in a Puerto Rican Neo-Slave Narrative

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: This article analyzes Mayra Santos-Febres's novel "Fe en disfraz" as a modern subversive slave narrative that inverts racial and gender hierarchies and critiques contemporary Caribbean white male privilege. The analysis answers the following questions: How does the novel represent the racialized and sexualized female body? How does the novel's representation of racial and gender relations address the legacy of the Atlantic slave trade in the Caribbean? And ultimately, what does the novel suggest about (re-) writing the personal and the collective history of slavery?

Source: The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College (Gettysburg College)

Author: Radost A. Rangelova

Institution: Gettysburg College

Language: English

Topic: Caribbean and African Literature and Culture

Subfield: Religious studies

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Gender equality

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W178316837

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Cites: 7

Cited by: 4

Related to: 10