¿Quién le debe a quién?: A Poetics of Feminist Debt Refusals in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico's $72 billion unpayable debt has prompted one of the largest migrations in its history and austerity measures that strip Puerto Ricans of access to basic services such as health, education, and infrastructure. It has transformed life in Puerto Rico for the worse, in ways both intimate an...
| Publicado en: | Centro Journal Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 101 - 130 |
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Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)
Summer2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=181537760&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 181537760 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 15386279 GWW jtl: Centro Journal issn: 15386279 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Summer2024 vid: 36 iid: 2 pid: 11026 pub: Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) artinfo: ui: 181537760 ppf: 101 ppct: 29 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 2.6MB tig: atl: ¿Quién le debe a quién?: A Poetics of Feminist Debt Refusals in Puerto Rico. aug: au: RIVERA MONTES, ZORIMAR affil: Andrew Mellon assistant professor in the Humanities at Tulane University su: Feminist literature Puerto Ricans Debt Decolonization Austerity Poetics Puerto Rico sug: subj: Puerto Rico Feminist literature Puerto Ricans Debt Decolonization Austerity Poetics keyword: debt feminist poetry queer ab: Puerto Rico's $72 billion unpayable debt has prompted one of the largest migrations in its history and austerity measures that strip Puerto Ricans of access to basic services such as health, education, and infrastructure. It has transformed life in Puerto Rico for the worse, in ways both intimate and structural. In this article, I track the poetics of debt articulated in contemporary feminist Puerto Rican poetry. In the span of three years, a number of volumes and poems were published that confronted the unpayable Puerto Rican debt: Roque Raquel Salas Rivera's Lo terciario/The Tertiary (2018), Mara Pastor's Falsa heladería (2018), Nicole Cecilia Delgado's Periodo especial (2019), Mayra Santos-Febres' Huracanada (2018) and a lyrical essay in Ariadna Godreau Aubert's Las propias: apuntes para una pedagogía de las endeudadas (2018). They all share a distinctively transfeminist and decolonial approach towards indebtedness. The poems reveal distinct formal styles and subject positions but share a form of theorizing the condition of indebtedness from a feminist and queer perspective. The condition of indebtedness is a form of subjection, and the feminist and queer poetry I read theorizes along with scholarship on activism on the links between gender and debt oppressions. Because the discourse around debt is dominated by legal, economic, and political perspectives, poetry becomes a fundamental site from which to understand indebtedness as a quotidian, affective, and embodied experience. The poetry of Salas Rivera, Pastor, and Delgado define the indebted position, refuse the moral and colonial culpability of debt, and articulate decolonial futures outside indebted subjection. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Centro Journal is the property of Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Centro Journal holder: Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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