Past Events
Dr. Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel.
Title: Colonialidad de poder: Puerto Rico y Martinica.
Date: February 21, 2007
Dr. Martinez-San Miguel is a distinguished Latin American professor
from University of Pennsylvania. She works on Latin American colonial
discourses and contemporary Caribbean and Latino narratives. Her
current research is devoted to a comparative study on internal
Caribbean migrations between former/actual metropolis and colonies,
using Puerto Rico and Martinique as case studies. She questions
transnational and postcolonial approaches to massive population
displacements and their cultural productions.
Dr. Martinez-San Miguel is the author of Saberes
americanos: subalternidad y epistemologia en los escritos de Sor
Juana (Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana,
1999) and Caribe Two Ways: cultura de la migracion en el Caribe
insular hispanico (Ediciones Callejon, 2003). She edited with
Mabel Morana the compilation of essays "Nictimene sacrilega:
homenaje a Georgina Sabat de Rivers" (México: Iberoamericana
and Claustro de Sor Juana 2003).
