Flipping the Script: The Body and Belonging in Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's "Daughters of the Stone"

C. Christina Lam’s paper, “Flipping the Script: The Body and Belonging in Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s Daughters of Stone,” will elucidate the relationship between body, home, and belonging dramatized in Dahlma... [ view full abstract ]

C. Christina Lam’s paper, “Flipping the Script: The Body and Belonging in Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s Daughters of Stone,” will elucidate the relationship between body, home, and belonging dramatized in Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s Daughters of Stone. In this study Lam demonstrates the ways that the body serves as a site of healing, knowing, and ultimately home. She reads Llanos-Figueroa’s novel as an act of intervention recuperating the Afro-Latin@ body from the colonial violence of slavery that would erase matrilineal legacies and deny the racialized body citizenship. In so doing she demonstrates how the novel flips the script of colonial violence by narrating her-stories via the embodied experience of community that welcomes the racialized subject home while challenging “official” histories that would otherwise deny the Afro-Latin@ body and belonging.

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