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V BOOK FAIR – MULTILINGUAL EVENT www.newyorkbookfairexpo.com Meet the author Book signing Vanessa Pérez Rosario V Book Fair Queens Museum of Art October 10, 2010 - 10 am to 6pm Vanessa Pérez Rosario is Visiting Scholar of Latino Studies at New York University and recipient of the Career Enhancement Fellowship 2010-2011, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Her current book project entitled Becoming Julia de Burgos: Transnationalism, Feminism, Diaspora is a critical biographical study of Puerto Rican poet, Julia de Burgos. Her research specialty is Caribbean literature in the United States and women’s writing. She is the editor of Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement (Palgrave Macmillan 2010). Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migrat ion: Narratives of Displacement is a collection of thirteen chapters that explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot Díaz. The essays in this collection reveal the multiple ways that writers of this tradition use their unique positioning as both insiders and outsiders to critique U.S. hegemonic discourses while simultaneously interrogating national discourses in their home countries. The chapters consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, sexuality, racial, identity, linguistic and national migrations. PRAISE: “Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement is an impressive accomplishment. The essays explore key moments in the history of Caribbean Latino literature and bring expert critical attention to trends over the past 150 years. Latino, meaning of Spanish speaking heritage in Anglo- America, is a word that points to contrapuntal doubling from the richly informative Introduction by Vanessa P érez Rosario and throughout the dozen excellent essays. The collection foregrounds the work of both established and younger scholars in the field, all of whom tackle a major author and deepen our appreciation through rich contextualization and fine readings. No other book I know on Latino literature is as timely, broad, and welcome.”— Doris Sommer, Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and of African and African American Studies, Director of Cultural Agents, Harvard University
