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V BOOK FAIR – MULTILINGUAL EVENT
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Meet the authorBook signing
Vanessa Pérez Rosario
V Book Fair
Queens Museum of ArtOctober 10, 2010 - 10 am to 6pm
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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 entitledBecoming 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 (PalgraveMacmillan 2010).
Hispanic Caribbean
Literature of Migration:Narratives of Displacement is acollection of thirteenchapters that explores theliterary tradition of
Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginningwith José Martí and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist, Junot Díaz. The essays in this collectionreveal the multiple ways that writers of this tradition usetheir unique positioning as both insiders and outsiders tocritique U.S. hegemonic discourses while simultaneouslyinterrogating national discourses in their home countries.
The chapters consider the way that spatial migration inliterature 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 essaysexplore key moments in the history of Caribbean Latino literatureand bring expert critical attention to trends over the past 150years. Latino, meaning of Spanish speaking heritage in Anglo-America, is a word that points to contrapuntal doublingfrom the richly informative Introduction by Vanessa Pérez Rosarioand throughout the dozen excellent essays. The collection
foregrounds the work of both established and youngerscholars in the field, all of whom tackle a major author anddeepen our appreciation through rich contextualization and finereadings. No other book I know on Latino literature is astimely, broad, and welcome.”—Doris Sommer, Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of RomanceLanguages and Literatures, and of African and African AmericanStudies, Director of Cultural Agents, Harvard University
