{"product_id":"reclaiming-medusa-short-stories-by-contemporary-puerto-rican-women-9781879960527","title":"Reclaiming Medusa: Short Stories by Contemporary Puerto Rican Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe short stories in \u003cem\u003eReclaiming Medusa\u003c\/em\u003e bring a much-needed perspective to the Latin American literary scene. Creating spaces in which the socially prescribed \"woman's place\" is questioned, problematized, and often subverted, these narratives reclaim women's lost power in ways that are subtle, complex, and sometimes startling. This revised edition contains new stories by Carmen Valle and Carmen Lugo Filippi, as well as a provocative new \"Translator's Note\" by editor and translator Diana L. Vélez.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eReclaiming Medusa\u003cem\u003e is an excellent beginning, something solid to sink our hungry teeth into. It signals the existence of an explicitly feminist literary arena in which Puerto Rican women on both sides of the water can begin hashing out the differences that go beyond choice of language--differences rooted in class and race, in the hope and desperation of migration and the slow poison of colonial rule\u003c\/em\u003e. -- Aurora Levins Morales, The Women's Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Any readers who still visualize the Latin American woman as either the cloistered daughter of aristocracy or the sturdy peasant bound to the soil in quasi-mystical communion will find it difficult to cling to such stereotypes after reading these thirteen stories by five contemporary Puerto Rican women writers.\u003c\/em\u003e -- Belles Lettres\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aunt Lute Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781879960527\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Diana V\u0026#195;\u0026#169;lez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52085589770421,"sku":"9781879960527","price":10.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_18d2d4e7-cbb6-4bae-b8e3-27016eb927c8.jpg?v=1765294623","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/reclaiming-medusa-short-stories-by-contemporary-puerto-rican-women-9781879960527","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}