Restored Roots
Muntu as a Healing Agent in Pelo bueno, pelo malo by Carmen Montañez
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9863274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Wayne Edison (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 624-635 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/hpn.2017.0103 |
| OpenAlex | W2781287468 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Carmen Montañez's novel Pelo bueno, pelo malo acknowledges the struggle that some Caribbean individuals face in accepting their blackness. The novel integrates the union of ancestors with the living, thus reflecting the Bantu concept known as Muntu. This Puerto Rican novel presents a deep social problem of internalized self-hatred and uses an African spiritual concept to heal the protagonist in her struggle to accept the complexity of her identity
Aesthetics · Art · Bantu languages · Face (sociological concept) · Hatred · Humanities · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |