viernes, octubre 16, 2015

Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro: “Each victory must be applauded. Be a lion.”



The presentation by Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, a Puerto Rican novelist, poet, and short-story writer, had quite an effect on the audience. She expressed her concern and dissatisfaction for the fact that Puerto Rico lacks an African Studies or related college program in its universities—there is not enough dialogue on the experiences of African diaspora people and women on the island, according to Pizarro.

“The history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter until the lions tell the story,” Pizarro began in her presentation. Her book, “Negras: Stories of Puerto Rican Slave Women,” allows the voice of black women in Puerto Rico to be heard and acknowledged. Pizarro claimed the historical data is incomplete. There is a focus on rebellions by black male slaves, and the accounts are “narrated from a patriarchal standpoint.”

Pizarro ended her presentation by saying “Each victory must be applauded. Be a lion.”

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Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro (Guaynabo, 1970). Es novelista, cuentista y ensayista puertorriqueña. Fue elegida una de las escritoras latinoamericanas más importantes menores de 39 años del Bogotá39 convocado por la UNESCO, el Hay Festival y la Secretaría de Cultura de Bogotá por motivo de celebrar a Bogotá como Capital Mundial del libro 2007. Acaba de recibir Residency Grant Award 2011 del National Hispanic Cultural Center en Nuevo México. Es autora de los libros de cuentos, ‘Avalancha’ (2011), ‘Historias para morderte los labios’ (Finalista PEN Club 2010), y ‘Ojos de Luna’ (Segundo Premio Nacional 2008, Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña; Libro del Año 2007 Periódico El Nuevo Día), además de los libros de poesía ‘Medialengua’ (2010) y Perseidas (2011). Ha publicado las novelas ‘Los documentados’ (Finalista Premio PEN Club 2006) y Caparazones (2010, publicada en Puerto Rico y España).

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