Becoming Julia de Burgos : the making of a Puerto Rican icon / Vanessa Pérez Rosario.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez Rosario, Vanessa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burgos, Julia de, 1914-1953--Criticism and interpretation.

Burgos, Julia de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

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. This work, a full-length study written in English, examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her legacy in New York City.

Contents:

Writing the nation: feminism, anti-imperialism, and the generación del treinta

Nadie es profeta en su tierra: exile, migration, and hemispheric identity

Más allá del mar: journalism as Puerto Rican cultural and political transnational practice

Multiple legacies: Julia de Burgos and Caribbean Latino diaspora writers

Remembering Julia de Burgos: cultural icon, community, belonging

Conclusion: Creating Latinidad.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252080609

0252080602

9780252096921

0252096924

OCLC:

894511250