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"""A much-needed intervention into the place and function of literature written by Puerto Rican women and more broadly women of color. Garcia fills a gap in the intersection between history and literary production, arguing that historical narrative must come not only from hegemonic sources--which tightly control, if not silence, these voices---but also from women of color cultural producers through memoir. Indispensable for anyone interested in women of color feminism and ethnic studies."" --Jennifer Rudolph, Connecticut College ""Garcia offers a compelling reading of literature by female Puerto Rican writers and delineates a critical methodology that analyzes the narrative strategies these authors deploy. She identifies how these writers challenge conventional historiographies that have rendered them marginal. Garcia elucidates how these narratives redress the violence of dominant modes of historical documentation. She underscores how they can produce a healing effect for readers and also afford legitimacy to alternative epistemologies."" --Dara E. Goldman, University of Illinois"

A much-needed intervention into the place and function of literature written by Puerto Rican women and more broadly women of color. Garcia fills a gap in the intersection between history and literary production, arguing that historical narrative must come not only from hegemonic sources--which tightly control, if not silence, these voices---but also from women of color cultural producers through memoir. Indispensable for anyone interested in women of color feminism and ethnic studies. --Jennifer Rudolph, Connecticut College Garcia offers a compelling reading of literature by female Puerto Rican writers and delineates a critical methodology that analyzes the narrative strategies these authors deploy. She identifies how these writers challenge conventional historiographies that have rendered them marginal. Garcia elucidates how these narratives redress the violence of dominant modes of historical documentation. She underscores how they can produce a healing effect for readers and also afford legitimacy to alternative epistemologies. --Dara E. Goldman, University of Illinois

Garcia offers a compelling reading of literature by female Puerto Rican writers and delineates a critical methodology that analyzes the narrative strategies these authors deploy. She identifies how these writers challenge conventional historiographies that have rendered them marginal. Garcia elucidates how these narratives redress the violence of dominant modes of historical documentation. She underscores how they can produce a healing effect for readers and also afford legitimacy to alternative epistemologies. --Dara E. Goldman, University of Illinois A much-needed intervention into the place and function of literature written by Puerto Rican women and more broadly women of color. Garcia fills a gap in the intersection between history and literary production, arguing that historical narrative must come not only from hegemonic sources--which tightly control, if not silence, these voices---but also from women of color cultural producers through memoir. Indispensable for anyone interested in women of color feminism and ethnic studies. --Jennifer Rudolph, Connecticut College

"A much-needed intervention into the place and function of literature written by Puerto Rican women and more broadly women of color. Garcia fills a gap in the intersection between history and literary production, arguing that historical narrative must come not only from hegemonic sources--which tightly control, if not silence, these voices---but also from women of color cultural producers through memoir. Indispensable for anyone interested in women of color feminism and ethnic studies.-- ""Jennifer Rudolph, Connecticut College"" Garcia offers a compelling reading of literature by female Puerto Rican writers and delineates a critical methodology that analyzes the narrative strategies these authors deploy. She identifies how these writers challenge conventional historiographies that have rendered them marginal. Garcia elucidates how these narratives redress the violence of dominant modes of historical documentation. She underscores how they can produce a healing effect for readers and also afford legitimacy to alternative epistemologies.-- ""Dara E. Goldman, University of Illinois"""

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Elizabeth Garcia is currently teaching courses in the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at Wesleyan University . She has also taught courses in Latino/a Studies with a focus on history, cultural studies, and literature.

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