Affect, Archive, Archipelago

Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa is an independent writer, scholar, editor, translator, companion, and never-ending apprentice who stands for Puerto Rican and Caribbean emancipations.

• 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.