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Future Memory & the Construction of a Decolonial Digital Archive

Virtual
Saturday, March 26, 2022
10:35 am to 11:35 am

 

This panel focuses on the challenges, methodologies, and drives involved in the creation of a decolonial archive of Puerto Rican literature. It addresses how interviewing writers, translating, working with institutions, and digitizing materials can create a lasting open-access source during a period in which the archipelago’s educational resources are being privatized and the gap between institutional access and intercommunity literary production is widening in both archipiélago and diáspora.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Event_Title_Future_Memory.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado is the translator of Dinapiera Di Donato’s Colaterales  and the author of The Life Assignment. The recipient of fellowships from Cantomundo, Queer|Arts|Mentorship and NYFA, he is managing director at 92Y's Unterberg Poetry Center.

Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, editor, and translator and a principal investigator for El proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña/ The Puerto Rico Literature Project

Claire Jimenez is a Puerto Rican writer from New York City who received her MFA from Vanderbilt University. A PhD student at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, she is the author of Staten Island Stories and a coprincipal investigator for the Puerto Rican Literature Project.

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