From the Dark Shores of Puerto Rico: Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro’s Portrayal of the Society’s Margins in Los documentados

Dr. Emmanuel Harris II, “From the Dark Shores of Puerto Rico: Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro’s Portrayal of the Society’s Margins in Los documentados” Université de Montréal, Canadá

 

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Abstract

This papers considers the political and social content of Arroyo Pizarro´s fiction by analyzing how race, class, gender and history become intertwined in  Los documentados, an epistolary novel that takes place in a Puerto Rican coastal town and is told from the perspective of a deaf nine-year-old girl. She testifies, legitimizes, and transcribes the events of the undocumented immigrants in their desperate attempts to reach the island of Puerto Rico.

 

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Revista TINKUY nº18, 2012. Boletín de Investigación y debate. Escritoras puertorriqueñas en el siglo XXI: creación y crítica Ana Belén Martín Sevillano (ed.) Section d’études hispaniques. Département de littératures et de langues modernes. Faculté des arts et des sciences. Université de Montréal, Canadá