\u003cP\u003eSince 2007, Afro-Puerto Rican women have been revising the foundational myths of the island and the diaspora to create a new vision of family as a national allegory that includes powerful Black protagonists. Novelists Mayra Santos-Febres and Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa tell the diasporaâs history, beginning with trans-Atlantic slavery. Santos-Febresâs allegories use sadomasochism and healing in the novels \u003cI\u003eFe en disfraz\u003c/I\u003e and \u003cI\u003eLa amante de Gardel\u003c/I\u003e. Short story writers Arroyo Pizarroâs \u003cI\u003elas Negras\u003c/I\u003e and Yvonne Denis-Rosarioâs \u003cI\u003eCapá prieto\u003c/I\u003e chronicle the struggle to create and preserve an empowering history of slavery and Black people on the island and in the diaspora.\u003cSUP\u003e \u003c/SUP\u003eLlanos-Figueroaâs \u003cI\u003eDaughters of the Stone\u003c/I\u003e envisages a sugar plantation in which Afrodescendants are free and respected. They remake the âgreat Puerto Rican familyâ to give greater agency to Afro-Puerto Ricans and include the diaspora in a âfractal familyâ. While liberating, these novels also depict the traumas wrought by both the maintenance and the dissolution of patriarchal, heteronormative, colonial and racist structures. \u003c/P\u003e
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