ON MEMORY AND RESISTANCE: MOTHERHOOD, COMMUNITY AND DISPOSSESSION IN ZORA MORENO'S COQUÍ CORIHUNDO VIRA EL MUNDO (1981).

This paper examines Zora Moreno's play Coquí corihundo vira el mundo (1981) as an alternative to the identitarian investment in the patriarchal myth of the gran familia puertorriqueña. I argue that by offering a feminist rewriting of Adolfina Villanueva through the protagonist Anastasia, Moreno comb...

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Published in:	Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies Vol. 18; pp. 149 - 175
Main Author:	Menzies, Stephanie Gomez
Format:	Article
Published:	Research Foundation of SUNY on behalf of SUNY Cortland Winter2017
Subjects:	Race discrimination Black women
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