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Summary:

"Using an interdisciplinary approach, Healing Memories analyzes the ways that Puerto Rican women authors use their literary works to challenge historical methodologies that have silenced the historical experiences of Puerto Rican women in the United States. Following Aurora Levins Morales's alternative historical methodology she calls 'curandera history,' this work analyzes the literary work of authors, including Aurora Levins Morales, Nicholasa Mohr, Esmeralda Santiago, and Judith Ortiz Cofer, and the ways they create medicinal histories that not only document the experiences of migrant women but also heal the trauma of their erasure from mainstream national history. Each analytical chapter focuses on the various methods used by each author including using the literary space as an archive, reclaiming memory, and (re)writing cultural history, all through a feminist lens that centers the voices and experiences of Puerto Rican women"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. "La cultural cura": healing historical absences
• The making of a curandera historian: Aurora Levins Morales
• Double victory for Puerto Rican women too: Nicholasa Mohr's Nilda
• Mending broken memories: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent dancing: a partial
• Remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood
• "Degrees of puertoricanness": Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican
• Conclusion. Who tells your story?: situating diasporican women's literature.

Author/Creator:

García, Elizabeth (Writer on Puerto Rican women's literature) , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Medicinal histories [by García, E.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Healing memories : Puerto Rican women's literature in the United States [by García, E.] (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]; Latino and Latin American profiles — ISBN 9780822965640; LCCN 20811369)

Related Series:

Latino and Latin American profiles

Subjects:

American literature — Puerto Rican authors — History and criticism

Puerto Rican literature — Women authors — History and criticism

Feminism and literature — United States — History — 20th century

Women and literature — United States — History — 20th century

American literature — Women authors — History and criticism

Puerto Rican women — United States — Intellectual life

Puerto Ricans in literature

1900-1999

American literature

Puerto Rican literature — Women authors

Puerto Rican literature

Feminism and literature

Women and literature

American literature — Women authors

Puerto Rican women

Intellectual life

American literature — Puerto Rican authors

United States

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

General Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Berkeley, 2002, titled "Medicinal histories" : Puerto Rican women's writings in the United States.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PS153.P83 G37 2018eb

ISBNs:

9780822965640 (paperback, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9780822986393 (e-book)

OCLC Numbers:

1083641998

Other Control Numbers:

EBC5652114 (source: MiAaPQ)
EBL5652114 (source: Au-PeEL)