Upcoming Events for the 2009/2010 School Year:
Representations of Racialized Femininities and Sexuality in Late 19th century Puerto Rican Fiction
WHEN:
November 4 2009, 4:30pm
WHERE: Room 135, Liberal Arts Building, NAU Campus
(Building 18)
COST: This presentation is free and open to the
public.
Sponsored by Latin American Studies.
The presentation will be in English.
This presentation by Professor Marcela Saldivia-Berglund explores how the abolition of slavery in 1873 affected in contradictory ways Puerto Rico’s post-plantation cultural imaginary. She examines six foundational narratives from the late nineteenth-century including: ¿Pecadora? by Salvador Brau, La charca by Manuel Zeno Gandía, Ana Roqué’s Sara la obrera, Carmela Eulate's La muñeca, and Ana Roqué's stories “El rey del mundo” and “El secreto de una soltera.” Through her analysis of these works, she hopes to illuminate how in their fiction white Creoles conveyed meanings contradictorily linked to race, class and gender power relations, and pose questions of cultural identity.