page_title: La muñeca menor
section_title: Chágara
hierarchical_section_title: La muñeca menor / Background / Chágara
caption_attribution_description: English: This photo of the freshwater shrimp, Atya lanipes (Family: Atyidae), was taken in Puerto Rico.
context_page_description: La muñeca menor, also known as, The Youngest Doll is a short story written by Rosario Ferré. The story is told in third person narrative, and is part of a larger group of published work in her book of short stories, "Papeles de Pandora", this is one of the most famous of those short stories. Ferré managed to produce this work in both Spanish and English, originally published in Spanish in 1972 in the journal Zona de Carga y descarga; the journal in which the story was initially published was created by Ferré and her cousin Olga Nolla. Before Ferré translated this short story, it was translated by US translator Gregory Rabassain in 1980, yet his translation did not meet Ferré's vision of the work. Ferré worked to retranslate it with her friend, Diana Vélez, this work of theirs was published in 1991. With the multiple translations of this short story, it separated her from other Latin American writers who primarily wrote their work in Spanish. It is considered an important work of Puerto Rican literature and important in Women's studies.
context_section_description: A chágara, found in Puerto Rico and other Caribbean Islands, is a type of edible crustacean: shrimp, prawn or crayfish, fished from rivers and freshwater streams by locals. In the story's many analysis the chágara is called different things, sometimes a river prawn.
caption: Atya lanipes, a crustacean (freshwater shrimp), "chagara" might refer to other species
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