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Mayra Santos-Febres. Mayra Santos-Febres (born 1966 in Carolina) is a Puerto Rican author, poet, novelist, professor of literature, essayist, and literary critic and author of children's books. [1] Her work focuses on themes of race, diaspora identity, female sexuality, gender fluidity, desire, and power. [2] [3] She is a cultural activist who ...
Feb 9, 2021 · Mayra Santos-Febres, a Puerto Rican writer and scholar, discusses her new program that will be the first of its kind in Puerto Rico and Latin America, focusing on race and blackness across the Americas. She explains the challenges and opportunities of this project, and its impact on Latinx Studies in the U.S.
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Mayra Santos-Febres is a Puerto Rican writer and cultural leader who has received several awards and grants for her work. She talks about her latest novel, Antes que llegue la luz, inspired by Hurricane Maria, and her initiatives to promote Blackness and racialization in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Mayra Santos-Febres is a Puerto Rican author, poet, novelist, professor of literature, essayist, and literary critic and author of children's books. Her work focuses on themes of diaspora identity, female sexuality, the erotic, gender fluidity, desire, and power.
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Sep 7, 2021 · Boat People by Mayra Santos-Febres, translated by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario. reviewed by Zack Anderson. Midway through Boat People, the Puerto Rican poet and novelist Mayra Santos-Febres’s book-length poem, the speaker confronts an unnamed addressee with a jarring question: “how is the city of your death mulata?”
This is how, in one interview, Mayra Santos-Febres (Puerto Rico, 1966) describes the intimate space from which the protagonists of her novels emerge. These words also illustrate a set of recurring themes in the poetics and the literary career of this Puerto Rican writer, whose work I explore in this essay, emphasizing her two latest books: Antes que llegue la luz (2021) and Lecciones de ...
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Learn about Mayra Santos-Febres, a novelist, poet, essayist, and professor who received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. Explore her works, awards, and academic interests in African, Caribbean, and feminist literature.
