Becoming Julia De Burgos - The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon

Vanessa P¿z Rosario is associate professor of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at City University of New York, Brooklyn College, and the editor of Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement.

List of contents

Cover

Title

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Writing the Nation: Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, and the Generación del Treinta

2. Nadie es profeta en su tierra: Exile, Migration, and Hemispheric Identity

3. Más allá del mar: Journalism as Puerto Rican Cultural and Political Transnational Practice

4. Multiple Legacies: Julia de Burgos and Caribbean Latino Diaspora Writers

5. Remembering Julia de Burgos: Cultural Icon, Community, Belonging

Conclusion: Creating Latinidad

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Vanessa Perez Rosario

Summary

While it is rare for a poet to become a cultural icon, Julia de Burgos has evoked feelings of bonding and identification in Puerto Ricans and Latinos in the United States for over half a century. In this book, the author examines Julia de Burgos' development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her legacy in New York City.

Product details

• Authors: Vanessa Paerez Rosario, Vanessa Perez Rosario, Vanessa Perez Rosario
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.2014
• EAN: 9780252080609
• ISBN: 978-0-252-08060-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies