Maternidades Puertorriqueñas En El Arte Y La Literatura - Guzmán Zavala, Ivette M
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This book establishes a dialogue between examples of Puerto Rican works of art and literary texts to analyse the meanings of various representations of motherhood. The (dis)connections between both creative spaces identify aspects of national history in the maternal body. Examples from art and literature reflect ways in which slavery, colonialism, and experiences in the diaspora tend to categorise, control, and intervene in mother-child relationships, including pregnancy and childbirth. However, according to Guzmán Zavala, in order to describe these experiences it is necessary to consider a…mehr

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This book establishes a dialogue between examples of Puerto Rican works of art and literary texts to analyse the meanings of various representations of motherhood. The (dis)connections between both creative spaces identify aspects of national history in the maternal body. Examples from art and literature reflect ways in which slavery, colonialism, and experiences in the diaspora tend to categorise, control, and intervene in mother-child relationships, including pregnancy and childbirth. However, according to Guzmán Zavala, in order to describe these experiences it is necessary to consider a discourse that encompasses other maternities. This text demonstrates that there are hidden secrets in the space between text and image which are related to practices that remain silenced and which sometimes, express disgust and misery in their struggle for visibility.