S152.
Future Memory & the Construction of a Decolonial Digital Archive
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.
Participants
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.