Catastrophic Historicism shows that historicism is a transcendental ontology that must be challenged by endangering the reduction of the past to a possession. The book then endangers the historicist reception of Julia de Burgos, Puerto Rico's most iconic writer, interpreting her work as the poetics of Puerto Rican modernity.
Catastrophic Historicism shows that historicism is a transcendental ontology that must be challenged by endangering the reduction of the past to a possession. The book then endangers the historicist reception of Julia de Burgos, Puerto Rico's most iconic writer, interpreting her work as the poetics of Puerto Rican modernity.
Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.
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Introduction: Reading Danger 1 Part I: Catastrophic Traditions: Reading the Image of Julia de Burgos, Dangerously 23 Part II: The Closure of Historicism; or, History in Deconstruction 98 Part III: Reading Now: The Catastrophic Modernity of Julia de Burgos 154 Epilogue: After Sovereignty? 273 Acknowledgments 277 Notes 283 Index 325
Introduction: Reading Danger 1 Part I: Catastrophic Traditions: Reading the Image of Julia de Burgos, Dangerously 23 Part II: The Closure of Historicism; or, History in Deconstruction 98 Part III: Reading Now: The Catastrophic Modernity of Julia de Burgos 154 Epilogue: After Sovereignty? 273 Acknowledgments 277 Notes 283 Index 325
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