Bomba dance Caribbean literature Caribbean region Caribbean women writers Caribe Eduardo Galeano Elena Poniatowska Foucault Iliad Latin American literature Latin American women writers Odyssey Puerto Rican culture Puerto Rican literature Puerto Rican women writers Puerto Rico Virgilio Piñera adolescencia femenina afrocaribbean philosohy afrocaribbean religions afrocaribbean women black women bodies brothels colonization creative writing cuerpos dance desire erotism escritoras escritoras caribeñas escritoras latinoamericanas feminidades femininities gender girlhood girls género human trade infancia insularidad insularity islands language literatura caribeña literatura latinoamericana marginalization mascilinidades masculinities modernity mujer y sociedad niñas orality postcoloniality power prostitution race rationality santeria sex sexuality urban space western thought women and society women writers working class women “El cuerpo correcto” “Nuestra señora de la noche” “Our Lady of the Night” “Pez de vidrio” “Sirena Selena” “Urban Oracles” More