Vanessa Pérez Rosario is Visiting Scholar of study of Puerto Rican poet, Julia de Burgos. Her Latino Studies at New York University and research specialty is Caribbean literature in the recipient of the Career Enhancement Fellowship United States and women’s writing. She is the 2010-2011, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon editor of Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Foundation. Her current book project entitled Migration: Narratives of Displacement (Palgrave Becoming Julia de Burgos: Transnationalism, Macmillan 2010). Feminism, Diaspora is a critical biographical
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 Pérez Rosario Hispanic Caribbean and throughout the dozen excellent essays. The collection Literature of Migration: foregrounds the work of both established and younger Narratives of scholars in the field, all of whom tackle a major author and Displacement is a deepen our appreciation through rich contextualization and fine collection of thirteen readings. No other book I know on Latino literature is as chapters that explores the timely, broad, and welcome.”— literary tradition of 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
