Annotations for People: Nieves-colon-myrna E

Women have been traditionally storytellers, and have been in a very close relationship with the oral tradition because they were the grandmothers and the mothers that told those stories.

Women have been traditionally storytellers and have been in a very close relationship with the oral tradition because they were the grandmothers and the mothers that told us stories and sang us songs and recite poems to us when we were small.

Now, when we talk about the Boys of Women writers, we are not talking about a voice, we are talking about really about the chorus. So it's not one voice that only presents a strong and potent women, but women in different stages of development, women from different social classes, women that has been recent in the immigration experience from Puerto Rico. It is very important that the leadership produced by women is made public.

She has to defend this culture and at the same time in her work, she has to reexamine the culture with a critical eye and produce alternative cultural forms that are more harmonious and that give her a more just and better place in society.