{"title":"Mayra Santos-Febres","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMayra Santos-Febres\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts deeply personal narratives that blur the lines between memoir and fiction. Her works, like \u003cem\u003eFaith in Disguise\u003c\/em\u003e, explore themes of identity, resilience, and the complex intersections of culture and self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese intimate stories offer a poignant glimpse into human experience, inviting readers to reflect on memory and transformation through a richly evocative voice rooted in biography and memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"faith-in-disguise-by-mayra-santos-febres-9780826500182","title":"Faith in Disguise","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFaith in Disguise\u003c\/em\u003e follows Martín Tirado, a white Puerto Rican digital historian and research assistant to Fe Verdejo, an Afro-Venezuelan scholar curating an exhibition in Chicago on enslaved and freed Black women in Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Martín becomes increasingly enmeshed in Fe's intellectual and erotic orbit, his role as subordinate and interpreter exposes the entanglement of race, power, and desire in the production of historical knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the interplay of archival fragments and contemporary encounters, Mayra Santos-Febres illuminates how the afterlives of slavery persist within Latin American racial and sexual imaginaries, and how the erotic, as both method and experience, may gesture toward forms of liberation from them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650540355820,"sku":"9780826500182","price":62.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780826500182-faith-in-disguise.jpg?v=1779326392"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/mayra-santos-febres.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}