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JULIA DE BURGOS (1914-1953)
BlackPast
(2020)
Abstract
Julia de Burgos was a celebrated literary icon of the Americas whose themes of Blackness, feminism, love, migration, nationalism, and nature helped birth the 1960s Nuyorican movement. Julia Constanza Burgos García, teacher, activist, journalist, and poet, was born February 17, 1914 in Santa Cruz, Carolina, Puerto Rico to parents Paula García Burgos, a domestic, produce seller, and homemaker, and Francisco Burgos Hans, a national guardsman and farmer. The oldest of thirteen, Burgos witnessed six of her siblings die before reaching adulthood. The Río Grande de Loíza served as both childhood setting and title of her greatest ode.
Keywords
- Poet,
- Afro-Puerto Rican,
- Political Activist,
- teacher,
- journalist
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring May 22, 2020
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will guzmán. "JULIA DE BURGOS (1914-1953)" BlackPast (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/will-guzmn/11/
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