Affect, Archive, Archipelago: Puerto Rico's Sovereign Caribbean Lives

By Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa

Inspired by douard 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 Ram n 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 Coalici n 8M; and Teresa Hern ndez'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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538151448
• ISBN13: 9781538151440
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"