Affect, Archive, Archipelago

Puerto Rico’s Sovereign Caribbean Lives

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa, Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa

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Inspired by Édouard Glissant’s and Marta Aponte Alsina’s critical-creative work, this book explores how Puerto Rico’s affective archive of Caribbean relations, from the nineteenth century through the twenty-first, has envisioned and embodied decolonization and sovereignty in relation to the archipelagic, the sea, and Caribbean regionalism. The book’s transdisciplinary archive includes historical figures and their legacies; political and activist thought, textuality, and action as performative interventions; and performance and live arts pieces, objects, materialities, and texts as political/activist actions. Affect, Archive, Archipelago begins by delving into the historical-political figures of Ramón Emeterio Betances, Luisa Capetillo, and Pedro Albizu Campos. It then encounters the work of the live arts collective Agua, Sol y Sereno; the political/activist work of Amigxs del MAR, Comuna Caribe, Mujeres que Abrazan la Mar, and Coalición 8M; and Teresa Hernández’s transdisciplinary artistic trajectory. Finally, stemming from the book’s argument and the immediate historical-political-affective context of Puerto Rico’s summer 2019 rebellion (Verano Boricua), the book offers some reflections and proposals for furthering decolonial, sovereign, archipelagic, and reparatory horizons for Puerto Rico

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-04-15
Mått150 x 228 x 21 mm
Vikt458 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRethinking the Island
Antal sidor298
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538151464

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Note of Gratitude Note on the Text List of Illustrations Prelude: An Unsheltered Walk-Swim of a Book, or For the Love of Us The Call Introduction: Waters Coming Ashore, Affects Creating Archives, Islands Touching Each Other PART I: PERFORMATIVE POLITICS IN PUERTO RICO’S AFFECTIVE ARCHIVE OF CARIBBEAN RELATIONS 1 Feeling the Archipelagic Confederation: Ramón Emeterio Betances and the Confederación AntillanaHunted Flesh 2 Embodying Oceanic Sovereignties: Luisa Capetillo and the Tribuna on the Street Subversive Walk 3 Commanding the Islands’ Liberation: Pedro Albizu Campos and the Partido Nacionalista Resounding Voice PART II: POLITICAL PERFORMANCES IN PUERTO RICO’S AFFECTIVE ARCHIVE OF CARIBBEAN RELATIONS 4 Tidal Relations of Art, Struggle, and Liberation: Agua, Sol y Sereno, Amigxs del MAR, Comuna Caribe, Mujeres que Abrazan la Mar, and Coalición 8M Embracing Coast 5 Sea, Salt, Survive: Teresa Hernández’s Multitudinously Small Art Overflowing Sea Coda: The Liquid Homeland of

Puerto Rico is typically described as an unincorporated and non-sovereign territory of the United States. But, as BeatrizLlenín-Figueroa argues convincingly, the world’s largest subnational island jurisdiction by population needs to be re-cast as part of an abundant Caribbean archipelago. Here is a richly undisciplined book of Puerto Rico as ‘coastal poetics;’ one which takes its readers on a liquid journey of lavishly entwined forms and lines, of word and body, on land and sea. Affect, Archive, Archipelago fleshes Puerto Rico/Borikén as a ‘work in progress’ in multiple ways; through the lens of this book, Puerto Rico becomes a place where its characters—unlike the US ‘territory’—are central, communitarian, and sovereign.