Affect, Archive, Archipelago: Puerto Ricos Sovereign Caribbean Lives [Paperback]

Inspired by ?douard Glissants and Marta Aponte Alsinas critical-creative work, this book explores how Puerto Ricos 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 books 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 aspolitical/activist actions.Affect, Archive, Archipelagobegins by delving into the historical-political figures of Ram?n Emeterio Betances, Luisa Capetillo, and Pedro Albizu Campos. It then encounters the work of the live arts collectiveAgua, Sol y Sereno; the political/activist work ofAmigxs del MAR,Comuna Caribe,Mujeres que Abrazan la Mar, andCoalici?n 8M; and Teresa Hern?ndezs transdisciplinary artistic trajectory. Finally, stemming from the books argument and the immediate historical-political-affective context of Puerto Ricos summer 2019 rebellion (Verano Boricua), the book offers some reflections and proposals for furthering decolonial, sovereign, archipelagic, and reparatory horizons for Puerto RicoBeatriz Llen?n-Figueroa is an independent writer, scholar, editor, translator, companion, and never-ending apprentice who stands for Puerto Rican and Caribbean emancipations.

Puerto Rico is typically described as an unincorporated and non-sovereign territory of the United States. But, as BeatrizLlen?n-Figueroa argues convincingly, the worlds largest subnational island jurisdiction by population needs to be re-cast as part of an abundant Caribbean archipelago. Here is a richly undisciplined book of Puerto Rico as coastal poetics; one which takes its readers on a liquid journey of lavishly entwined forms and lines, of word and blã*