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- Title
Flipping the Script: Memory, Body and Belonging in Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's Daughters of the Stone.
- Authors
Lam, C. Christina
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the book "Daughters of the Stone" by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa is presented. It outlines the context of the official history of Puerto Rico which privileges its European and Indigenous ancestry. It explores the mother-daughter bond disrupted by slavery and the resulting inter-generational trauma that does not simply focus on losses experienced. It also notes the relationship between memory, body and belonging to attest to the connection between embodiment and community.
- Subjects
DAUGHTERS of the Stone (Book); LLANOS-Figueroa, Dahlma; PUERTO Rican history; MOTHER-daughter relationship; SLAVERY; MEMORY
- Publication
Label Me Latina/o, 2017, Vol 7, p1
- ISSN
2333-4584
- Publication type
Literary Criticism