Abstract
Andrés Díaz Marrero (1940-2025) was a retired teacher in the Puerto Rican Public Education System. After his retirement as a teacher, he dedicated his life to writing poems, stories, plays, songs, and educational resources that highlight the values of Puerto Rican culture and the importance of education, publicly disseminating them through his website during the period of 1994-2025. This project showcases the development of a digital archive to safeguard the literary creations of this Puerto Rican author. ABC_PR presents itself as a living post-custodial repository, dialogically co-created from a familial, affective grandfather-granddaughter relationship, exploring instances of collaboration between writer-illustrator and educator-cultural manager. Andrés Díaz Marrero’s creation of a digital archive dedicated to Puerto Rican children’s literature offers the possibility to thematically protect these cultural resources and make them accessible for current and future educators, cultural managers, and the Puerto Rican community while offering itself as an example to emulate in the creation of affective and post-custodial digital memory projects.
Recommended Citation
Morales-Díaz, Adriana.
2026.
"La elaboración de ABC_PR: Un archivo digital de la literatura infantil puertorriqueña de Andrés Díaz Marrero."
archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis
9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17132/2689-842X.1006
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