Catastrophic Historicism - Reading Julia De Burgos Dangerously

Catastrophic Historicism shows that historicism is a transcendental ontology that must be challenged by endangering the reduction of the past to a possession. The book then endangers the historicist reception of Julia de Burgos, Puerto Rico's most iconic writer, interpreting her work as the poetics of Puerto Rican modernity.

List of contents

Introduction: Reading Danger | 1

Part I: Catastrophic Traditions: Reading the Image of Julia de Burgos, Dangerously | 23

Part II: The Closure of Historicism; or, History in Deconstruction | 98

Part III: Reading Now: The Catastrophic Modernity of Julia de Burgos | 154

Epilogue: After Sovereignty? | 273

Acknowledgments | 277

Notes | 283

Index | 325

About the author

Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús

Summary

Catastrophic Historicism shows that historicism is a transcendental ontology that must be challenged by endangering the reduction of the past to a possession. The book then endangers the historicist reception of Julia de Burgos, Puerto Rico’s most iconic writer, interpreting her work as the poetics of Puerto Rican modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald Mendoza-De Jesus, Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781531505639
• ISBN: 978-1-5315-0563-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies