Decolonial Puerto Rican Women’s Writings by Roberta Hurtado

Author:Roberta Hurtado
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030057312
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Narrative Voice of Sentient-Flesh

The construction of a narrative voice within poetry that details experiences of oppression can enable the depiction of sentient-flesh in contrast to a “body” that is under control. The narrative voice must engage a process of identifying, delineating, and subverting the narrative of the “body” that allows that oppression to occur. Indeed, in order to bring flesh back to the bone of Latina experience and enflesh those realities, it is vital for the narrative voice to know what the sentient-flesh has recorded, the structures that it has navigated, and the ways that it has attempted to communicate to the world around it what has occurred. Doing so means having compassion for those experiences, avoiding a victim-blaming narrative or focusing solely on responses to oppression at a superficial level rather than taking those symptoms to be part of a larger context and social experience. It also means directly contending with a coloniality of power that has actively attempted to narrate Latina experiences and render Latinas voiceless and has attacked them when they do attempt to tell of their experiences of power. The integrity imbued into the narrative voice constitutes a redirection of attention away from a coloniality and hyper-reflexivity that continues a process of non-directional response and instead focuses attention onto the issues at hand, such as how that coloniality constitutes micro-level violence and thereby attempts to disarm the communities it controls while finding ways to manifest itself through processes of power domination.

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