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Drawing on the fields of historiography, cultural studies, and gender studies, the author defies the tendency to examine these literary bodies independently of one another and therefore aims to present a more nuanced and holistic vision of this literature.

Puerto Rican women --- American literature --- Feminism and literature --- Families in literature. --- Puerto Rican literature --- Women, Puerto Rican --- Women --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Family in literature --- Spanish literature --- Intellectual life. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Puerto Rican authors

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"Using an interdisciplinary approach, Healing Memories analyzes the ways that Puerto Rican women authors use their literary works to challenge historical methodologies that have silenced the historical experiences of Puerto Rican women in the United States. Following Aurora Levins Morales's alternative historical methodology she calls 'curandera history,' this work analyzes the literary work of authors, including Aurora Levins Morales, Nicholasa Mohr, Esmeralda Santiago, and Judith Ortiz Cofer, and the ways they create medicinal histories that not only document the experiences of migrant women but also heal the trauma of their erasure from mainstream national history. Each analytical chapter focuses on the various methods used by each author including using the literary space as an archive, reclaiming memory, and (re)writing cultural history, all through a feminist lens that centers the voices and experiences of Puerto Rican women"--

American literature --- Puerto Rican literature --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Puerto Rican women --- Puerto Ricans in literature. --- Women, Puerto Rican --- Women --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Spanish literature --- Puerto Rican authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- History --- Intellectual life.