Resumen de Writing Words, Wearing Wounds: Race and Gender in a Puerto Rican Neo-Slave Narrative
This article analyzes Mayra Santos-Febres�s novel �Fe en disfraz� as a modern subversive slave narrative that inverts racial and gender hierarchies and critiques contemporary Caribbean white male privilege. The analysis answers the following questions: How does the novel represent the racialized and sexualized female body? How does the novel�s representation of racial and gender relations address the legacy of the Atlantic slave trade in the Caribbean? And ultimately, what does the novel suggest about (re-) writing the personal and the collective history of slavery?
