Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa’s new guide—Have an effect on, Archive, Archipelago: Puerto Rico’s Sovereign Caribbean Lives—was simply revealed in April 2022 by Rowman & Littlefield.
Description: Impressed by Édouard Glissant’s and Marta Aponte Alsina’s critical-creative work, this guide explores how Puerto Rico’s affective archive of Caribbean relations, from the nineteenth century by way of the twenty-first, has envisioned and embodied decolonization and sovereignty in relation to the archipelagic, the ocean, and Caribbean regionalism. The guide’s transdisciplinary archive contains historic figures and their legacies; political and activist thought, textuality, and motion as performative interventions; and efficiency and reside arts items, objects, materialities, and texts as political/activist actions.
Have an effect on, Archive, Archipelago begins by delving into the historical-political figures of Ramón Emeterio Betances, Luisa Capetillo, and Pedro Albizu Campos. It then encounters the work of the reside arts collective Agua, Sol y Sereno; the political/activist work of Amigxs del MAR, Comuna Caribe, Mujeres que Abrazan la Mar, and Coalición 8M; and Teresa Hernández’s transdisciplinary inventive trajectory. Lastly, stemming from the guide’s argument and the speedy historical-political-affective context of Puerto Rico’s summer season 2019 riot (Verano Boricua), the guide presents some reflections and proposals for furthering decolonial, sovereign, archipelagic, and reparatory horizons for Puerto Rico.
Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa is an unbiased author, scholar, editor, translator, companion, and unending apprentice who stands for Puerto Rican and Caribbean emancipations.
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