{"product_id":"9780252096921","title":"Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cu\u003eBecoming Julia de Burgos\u003c\/u\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073971306736,"sku":"9780252096921","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780252096921_p0.jpg?v=1769915939","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780252096921","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}