Becoming Julia de Burgos : the Making of a Puerto Rican Icon / Vanessa Pérez Rosario.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez Rosario, Vanessa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burgos, Julia de, 1914-1953.

Burgos, Julia de.

Authors, Puerto Rican--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Puerto Rican.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2014.

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 the first book-length study written in English, Vanessa Pérez Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her legacy in New York City, the poet's home after 1940. Pérez Rosario situates Julia de Burgos as part of a transitional generation that helps bridge the historical divide between Puerto Rican nationalist writers of the 1930s and the Nuyorican writers of the 1970s. Becoming Julia de Burgos departs from the prevailing emphasis on the poet and intellectual as a nationalist writer to focus on her contributions to New York Latino/a literary and visual culture. It moves beyond the standard tragedy-centered narratives of Burgos's life to place her within a nuanced historical understanding of Puerto Rico's peoples and culture to consider more carefully the complex history of the island and the diaspora Pérez Rosario unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latino/a writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Julia de Burgos as they imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Writing the Nation: Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, and the Generación del Treinta 15

2 Nadie es profeta en su tierra: Exile, Migration, and Hemispheric Identity 46

3 Más allá del mar: Journalism as Puerto Rican Cultural and Political Transnational Practice 69

4 Multiple Legacies: Julia de Burgos and Caribbean Latino Diaspora Writers 94

5 Remembering Julia de Burgos: Cultural Icon, Community, Belonging 123.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0252038967

9780252038969

0252080602

9780252080609

OCLC:

877367926