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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.
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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 to 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 de 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 Latina/o 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.
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• List of Illustrations(p. xiii)
• Acknowledgments(p. xv)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• 1 Writing the Nation: Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, and the Generación del Treinta(p. 15)
• 2 Nadie es profeta en su tierra: Exile, Migration, and Hemispheric Identity(p. 46)
• 3 Más allá del mar: Journalism as Puerto Rican Cultural and Political Transnational Practice(p. 69)
• 4 Multiple Legacies: Julia de Burgos and Caribbean Latino Diaspora Writers(p. 94)
• 5 Remembering Julia de Burgos: Cultural Icon, Community, Belonging(p. 123)
• Conclusion: Creating Latinidad(p. 147)
• Notes(p. 151)
• Bibliography(p. 167)
• Index(p. 183)

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Library Journal Review

Starred Review. Perez Rosario (Puerto Rican and Latino studies, Brooklyn Coll.; editor, Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration) gives a thorough and overdue examination of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos's (1914-53) work. The first book-length study written in English about the cultural icon, who Pablo Neruda once said "was called to be one of the greatest poets of the Americas," it explores themes of sexuality, migration, race, and exile in her poetry. The author also provides context for Burgos's work within Puerto Rican and Latin American history and literature, showing how the poet's collections challenged the male-dominated conversation on "nationhood" during 1930s Puerto Rico and pushed the envelope on discussions of feminism and race. While the author touches upon Burgos's love affairs and early death, especially her relationship with the Dominican political thinker Juan Isidro Jimenez Grullon, she refreshingly chooses to focus more on the writer's verses. Especially intuitive is her extension of the definition of "sexile," which often refers to an exile who leaves their home country on account of their sexual orientation, to include Burgos, who moved away from Puerto Rico and eventually settled in New York because she was deemed "sexually transgressive within patriarchal heteronormative discourses." The author rounds out the work with clear examples of how Burgos left a growing legacy on Nuyorican and Latin American culture. VERDICT An eye-opening study on a poet and political activist in the ranks of Gabriela Mistral and Luisa Capetillo, this is a must-have for Latin American, Puerto Rican, women's, and Caribbean studies collections. Shelley Diaz, School Library Journal (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

This remarkable, thoroughly researched study of the poet Julia de Burgos (1914-53) comprises five chapters, an introduction, and a conclusion. Copious notes elucidate the text. Photographs and color plates enrich and reinforce Pérez Rosario's thought-provoking portrait of this dynamic woman. The poet's letters to her sister in Puerto Rico, reproduced in the second chapter, offer fascinating insights and nuanced dimensions to her persona in her exploration of New York City beyond the confines of East Harlem. A political and cultural activist who participated in efforts for Puerto Rican independence, Burgos insisted in her "Poema para mi muerte" on being known as a poet. Pérez Rosario (CUNY, Brooklyn College) states in her conclusion, "Creating Latinidad," that her intention in writing this study was to "read Julia de Burgos's life, poetry, prose, and death from a Latino studies perspective." A phenomenal work by a remarkable scholar, this absorbing volume is required reading for those intrigued by the relationship between Latin America and the US. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. --Francesca Colecchia, Duquesne University

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Vanessa Prez Rosario is an 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.