The Afterlives of Julia de Burgos

Authors

Vanessa Pérez-Rosario, CUNY Queens CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2017

Abstract

This essay—a response to a discussion of the author’s 2014 book Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon—focuses on the importance of generations, intellectual genealogies, iconicity, and the afterlives of Puerto Rican poet and writer Julia de Burgos.

Comments

This is the accepted manuscript of an article finally published as: Pérez-Rosario, Vanessa. "The Afterlives of Julia de Burgos," Small Axe, vol. 21, no. 3 (54), 2021, pp. 209-218. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/676013/summary