Abstract

PENARANDA-ANGULO, Verónica. THE BLACK FEMALE HISTORY OR THE BLACK “HERSTORY”: READING AND REWRITING OF HISTORY FROM AND FOR WOMEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT IN MAYRA SANTOS-FEBRES’ FE EN DISFRAZ. perifrasis. rev.lit.teor.crit. [online]. 2018, vol.9, n.18, pp.98-116. ISSN 2145-8987.  https://doi.org/10.25025/perifrasis20189.18.06.

The following article analyzes Mayra Santos-Febres´s novel Fe en disfraz (2009) as a female Afrodiasporic and Latin American history -herstory-, based on the subjectivities represented by the protagonist and the documents on slaves that she studies. In this analysis, using Hazel Carby´s ideas regarding the need to write stories closer to the feminine experiences are necessary, I argue that the novel by the Puerto Rican writer is a literary exercise that gives voice to the racialized, colonial, and postcolonial female subjects, in order to recover, rewrite, and decolonize their history and their bodies.

Keywords : Mayra Santos-Febres; herstory; memory; Afrodiasporan; body..

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