41. How to Look at Silence

Nohora Arrieta is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University, where she specializes in Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies. Her dissertation, Bittersweet Poetics: Aesthetics and Politics of the Sugar Plantation in Brazil and the Caribbean (1990-2018), discusses works of visual art about the sugar plantation produced by Afro-descendant artists in Brazil and the Caribbean.Nohora is co-translating into English the poetry of Afro-Colombian poets Romulo Bustos and Pedro Blas. She is also working on two writing projects: How to Look at Silence examines family archives, memorabilia and contemporary works of art to discuss the migrations of Black and Indigenous women in the continental Caribbean (Venezuela-Colombia). I have been here for a while is a collection of narrative profiles of Black artists from the Spanish Caribbean, Colombia and Brazil. Her research and writing have been funded by ACLS/Mellon and Fulbright.