TY  - BOOK
AU  - García,Elizabeth
TI  - Healing memories: Puerto Rican women's literature in the United States 
T2  - Latinx and Latin American profiles
SN  - 9780822986393
AV  - PS153 .H435 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Pittsburgh, Pa.
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - Puerto Rican authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Puerto Rican literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Feminism and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Puerto Rican women
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Puerto Ricans in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Berkeley, 2002, titled "Medicinal histories" : Puerto Rican women's writings in the United States; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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"--
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