[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Invisibilizadas e innombradas: Cuentos de mujeres puertorriqueñas negras, by Rosario Méndez Panedas, as printed in April 2022 by Editorial EDP College. Listed below are excerpts from a e book evaluation by Felix Cruz (El Put up Antillano): “Invisibilizadas e innombradas un libro de Rosario Méndez Panedas.”
Invisibilizadas e innombradas: Cuentos de mujeres puertorriqueñas negras [Invisibilized and unnamed: Stories of Black Puerto Rican Women] is the title of the most recent publication by author Rosario Méndez Panedas. The e book, with 89 pages, was printed by the EDP College publishing home. The work is split into two components: “Mujeres invisibilizadas”[Invisibilized Women], biographies of black ladies forgotten by the collective reminiscence regardless of the extent of their work, and “Mujeres innombradas” [Unnamed Women], imaginary narratives of slave ladies whose solely identified knowledge are these printed in ads in Gaceta del Gobierno Constitucional de Puerto Rico.
The work is prefaced by famend author and director of the Chair of Ancestral Black Girls, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro. The e book was designed by Linnette Cubano García. The duvet, which reveals a picture of a black girl, was created by Ingrid Rodríguez Ramos. The attractive inside illustrations are works by Spanish visible artist, Tomás Méndez Panedas.
[. . .] Rosario is a grasp of language. She holds dominion over language and is aware of learn how to write for all audiences. She doesn’t search to impress with elaborate language, however her linguistic prowess is evident. In every phrase there may be an emotion that runs deep and sensitizes us to the immensity of the biographies and the ache of the enslaved.
Rosario speaks to ladies. In her textual content, it’s clear that she understands the feminist wrestle. The writer is aware of very properly that ladies have been victims of a male chauvinist system, however who, regardless of the oppression, know learn how to be warriors and overcome the obstacles imposed by patriarchy. They don’t search compassion, however somewhat calls for equality and respect for well-earned deserves.
In “Mujeres invisibilizadas,”the writer shares with us biographical recreations of trainer Celestina Cordero Medina; the working-class fighter, Juana Colón; the genius of librarian and author Pura Beltré [sic; Pura Belpré];; the artistic immensity of the visible artist Cecilia Orta Allende; and the lifetime of a slave who defends her proper to be free, Agripina.
The writer humanizes the biographies. Utilizing her creativeness, Rosario recreates their struggles and heartaches as she catapults us to seek out out extra about these nice ladies. They’re tales that make us rethink the injustices of an outdated system that also struggles to present ladies their house.
Within the part “Mujeres innombradas,” we go hand in hand with Rosario to really feel, via her creativeness, what slavery meant for black ladies. The ache of rape, stolen motherhood, the dehumanization of female entity, the destruction of cultural identification, and the lack of freedom are apparent themes in her tales. The writer reconstructs the lifetime of the masked ladies within the ads of a newspaper dominated by insensitive and racist males. [. . .]
Rosario Méndez Panedas is a professor within the Division of Languages and Literatures on the Inter-American College of Puerto Rico, San Germán Campus. The writer has a level in Hispanic Philology from Madrid’s Complutense College and a doctorate in Hispanic American literature from Syracuse College in New York.
Excerpts translated by Ivette Romero. See authentic (in Spanish) at https://elpostantillano.web/index.php?choice=com_content&view=article&id=29708:invisibilizadas-e-innombradas-un-libro-de-rosario-mendez-panedas&catid=293&Itemid=1002
For extra on the e book, see https://es-la.fb.com/editorialEDP/images/2910587122491289
https://www.amazon.com/Invisibilizadas-innombradas-Cuentos-mujeres-puertorriquepercentC3percentB1as/dp/1950792323/ref=sr_1_1
Additionally see:
“Conversatorio sobre el libro Invisibilizadas e innombradas: cuentos de mujeres puertorriqueñas negras con su autora Dra. Rosario Méndez Panedas e invitados: Dra. Ángela Valentín y Dr. Edgardo Machuca”
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP), Could 3, 2022
https://www.fb.com/watch/?v=706503204019529
https://www.fb.com/icppr/movies/conversatorio-sobre-el-libro-invisibilizadas-e-innombradas-cuentos-de-mujeres-pu/706503204019529