CENTRO Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies: Fall 2014, Vol. 26 No. 2

Special issue of CENTRO Journal on the work of Julia de Burgos (1914-1953) in honor of the centennial of her birth. Julia de Burgos is one of Puerto Rican literature’s most iconic figures. The critical commentary on her life and work has treated her oeuvre unevenly. Even after groundbreaking studies, the tragic mode still dominates critical and biographical discourses. This special issue builds on recent attempts to rethink her life and work, discovering links with multiple poetic traditions and genealogies of thought that are not strictly bound to the insular and national frameworks that structure Puerto Rican Studies.