William Carlos Williams y su madre puertorriqueña

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William Carlos Williams y su madre puertorriqueña: la pintora y pianista Raquel Helena Rosa Hoheb Hurrard

 La escritora Marta Aponte Alsina hablará el sábado,20 de abril de 2019, sobre la protagonista de una de sus novelas: La muerte feliz de William Carlos Williams. Raquel Helena Rosa Hoheb Hurrard nació en Mayagüez, de madre martiniquesa y padre de la isla de St. Thomas. Estudió pintura en una de las academias de París, bajo la dirección de maestros académicos célebres como Carolus Duran y Jean Jacques Henner. En las Antillas conoció a quien sería su esposo, George Williams. Los Williams Hoheb se establecieron en Rutherford, New Jersey, donde Raquel Helena dio a luz a William Carlos Williams, uno de los grandes poetas del canon literario estadounidense. Aponte hablará sobre el proceso de investigación de su novela, sobre los en laces caribeños y las memorias que el libro reconoce y sobre Rutherford como uno de los lugares receptores de la diáspora puertorriqueña.

Marta Aponte Alsina es autora de novelas, relatos y ensayos. En 1994 publicó la novela Angélica furiosa. Siguieron El cuarto rey mago (novela); La casa de la loca (relatos); Vampiresas (novela corta); Fúgate (relatos); Sexto sueño, (novela); El fantasma de las cosas (novela); Sobre mi cadáver (novela corta); Mr. Green (novela corta); La muerte feliz de William Carlos Williams (novela) y Somos islas (ensayos). Sexto sueño recibió el Premio Nacional de Novela otorgado por el Pen Club de Puerto Rico. En 2018 publicó PR 3 Aguirre, un libro que alterna entre lo documental y lo imaginativo. En 2014 le fue otorgada la cátedra Nilita Vientós Gastón, que confiere el Programa de Estudios de Mujer y Género de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Río Piedras. Fue directora de las editoriales del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña y de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. Ha sido editora de libros y revistas, entre ellos la antología Narraciones puertorriqueñas, publicada por Fundación Biblioteca Ayacucho.

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Sábado, 20 de abril de 2019/ 2:00 pm
Casa Paoli
Calle Mayor 2648, Ponce
(939) 640-1584
nmirizarry@gmail.com
Entrada gratis
Auspicia: Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades

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