Affect, Archive, Archipelago
Puerto Rico’s Sovereign Caribbean Lives
Zusammenfassung
Inspired by Édouard 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 Ramón 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 Coalición 8M; and Teresa Hernández’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
Schlagworte
Politics Geopolitics Archive Anthropology cultural studies Island Studies Édouard Glissant Caribbean Studies Pedro Albizu Campos Sociopotical, Feminist, and Ecological Activism Teresa Hernández Theater and Performance Studies Puerto Rican Anarchism Puerto Rican Nationalism Puerto Rican Studies Ramón Emeterio Betances Marta Aponte Alsina Decolonization, Sovereignty, and Reparations Amigxs del MAR Islands, Archipelagos and Island and Archipelagic Studies Confederación Antillana Agua, Sol y Sereno Luisa CapetilloKeywords
affect comparative literature- i–xxii Preface i–xxii
- 1–40 Introduction 1–40
- 41–138 Part I: Performative Politics in Puerto Rico’s Affective Archive of Caribbean Relations 41–138
- 139–226 Part II: Political Performances in Puerto Rico’s Affective Archive of Caribbean Relations 139–226
- 227–256 Bibliography 227–256
- 257–274 Index 257–274
- 275–276 About the Author 275–276