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ABSTRACTThis dissertation explores how Afro-Latina narratives use historiographic metafiction and digital tools to reconstruct silenced histories, reclaim spiritual epistemologies, and affirm transnational Afro-diasporic identity. Focusing on Um defeito de cor (2006) by Ana Maria Gonçalves and Daughters of the Stone (2009) by Dahlma Llanos Figueroa, the study examines how Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Puerto Rican women protagonists activate memory, matrilineal archives, and sacred geographies to confront cultural trauma. Drawing on theories by Linda Hutcheon, Gloria Anzaldúa, Lillian Comas-Díaz, Beatriz Nascimento, and Christina Sharpe, it situates these novels as counter-archives and acts of narrative healing. The project also analyzes digital interventions by Afro-Latinx poet-activists Marianela Medrano-Marra and Mónica Carrillo, demonstrating how Afro-digital marronage and sacred digital practices challenge technological colonialism. Through interdisciplinary analysis, this dissertation contributes to Latinx Studies, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Brazilian literature, Black feminism, and digital humanities by showing how story- textual and digital- functions as a site of resistance, healing, and spiritual continuity.