https://library.icmglt.org/files/original/27865571b0b2209c3aa185d58f492a53.jpg 09532a3c6dbc6e90bc99d4d145dd4506 Electronic Resource View Source <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05731-2_5">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05731-2_5</a> Document Type Book chapter Author(s) Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa Book Title Daughters of the Stone Publisher Springer International Publishing Publication Date 2019 ISBN 9783030057312 Region Puerto Rico, United States Language English Access Restricted Access Abstract This chapter explores Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s novel Daughters of the Stone via psychoanalytics of historical trauma and studies regarding the effects of coloniality on genetic predispositions within epigenetics. This chapter examines how Llanos-Figueroa recreates narratives of Puerto Rico’s history of slavery. Importantly, this chapter contends that her renarration shows how women have been specifically inculcated into this system, both in its previous instantiations and the gaps in narratives in which slavery became a silenced trauma. This novel also critiques social shaming of Afro-Latinidades at both the individual family and larger socio-structural levels. This novel reclaims ancestral lineage as part of an empowered world-traveler consciousness. Analysis of this text in conjunction with recent studies in biological responses to trauma indicates the more insidious reach of colonialism and the importance of new narratives regarding historical trauma and narratives of pathologized bodies. Cataloger Haley Lesemann Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Envisioning Empowerment: Recodifying the Meaning of Historical Trauma Subject The topic of the resource Psychic trauma in literature Decolonization Epigenetics Healing Historical Trauma Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma Literature Puerto Rico Resilience United States Women in Literature