Laura Lomas

Bio

Laura Lomas is Professor of English and American Studies and teaches Latinx literature and culture at Rutgers University-Newark.  She is the author of Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects and American Modernities (2008) and co-editor of The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature (2018).

Contributions

Desdoblamiento after Colonization: Julia de Burgos’s Latinx Modernism

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Julia de Burgos (1914–53), one of Puerto Rico’s greatest poets, haunts the American literary imagination from the borders of the modern. [1] Her ghostly presence, desperate and furious, searches for interlocutors on the bridge to Welfare Island, historically a warehouse for the poor, the criminalized and sick just east of the United Nations. Julia’s barefoot figure wandering across that bridge in her bata, just as she describes in letters to her sister Consuelo in 1953, positions her to catch...

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latinx modernism feminism colonialism