Zorimar Rivera Montes is the Andrew Mellon Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Tulane University. She works on contemporary Puerto Rican and Latinx literatures and cultures in relation to colonialism and neoliberalism. Her forthcoming book is titled Against Resilience: Affect and Neoliberalism in Puerto Rico.
Zorimar Rivera Montes
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It’s About Time We Fail: A Puerto Rican Poetics of Exhaustion
The term “resilience” originated in ecology. But its shift from the natural to the social has normalized human-made structures of inequality.
