This Chapter fills the gaps in the Afro-Latina affective landscapes partially mapped in the two previous chapters. The chapter analyzes Daughters of the Stone, in which Afro-Puerto Rican author Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa (2009) tells the stories of five generations of Afro-Puerto Rican women across distinct historical periods and geographies, such as the west coast of Africa, Puerto Rico’s plantation society of the nineteenth century, and the Nuyorican diaspora in the twentieth century. The chapter examines how these spaces and the emotions attached to them constitute a complex transatlantic and diasporic map of Black affect. The analysis in this chapter argues that this affective map exemplifies comadrazgo as a community practice that is a legacy of transatlantic spirituality and epistemology as (1) an affective tool against blanqueamiento and systemic violence and (2) an affective device to mobilize a radical Black Latinx imagination.

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Affect in the Black Skin: A Transatlantic Map of Afro-Puerto Rican Emotions and Epistemologies

  • Natalia Villanueva-Nieves

摘要

This Chapter fills the gaps in the Afro-Latina affective landscapes partially mapped in the two previous chapters. The chapter analyzes Daughters of the Stone, in which Afro-Puerto Rican author Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa (2009) tells the stories of five generations of Afro-Puerto Rican women across distinct historical periods and geographies, such as the west coast of Africa, Puerto Rico’s plantation society of the nineteenth century, and the Nuyorican diaspora in the twentieth century. The chapter examines how these spaces and the emotions attached to them constitute a complex transatlantic and diasporic map of Black affect. The analysis in this chapter argues that this affective map exemplifies comadrazgo as a community practice that is a legacy of transatlantic spirituality and epistemology as (1) an affective tool against blanqueamiento and systemic violence and (2) an affective device to mobilize a radical Black Latinx imagination.