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The Guerilla Tongue": The Politics Of Resistance In Puerto Rican Poetry, Natasha Azank
The Guerilla Tongue": The Politics Of Resistance In Puerto Rican Poetry, Natasha Azank
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This dissertation examines how the work of four Puerto Rican poets – Julia de
Burgos, Clemente Soto Vélez, Martín Espada, and Naomi Ayala – demonstrates a poetics of resistance. While resistance takes a variety of forms in their poetic discourse, this project asserts that these poets have and continue to play an integral role in the cultural decolonization of Puerto Rico, which has been generally unacknowledged in both the critical scholarship on their work and the narrative of Puerto Rico’s anti-colonial struggle. Chapter One discuses the theoretical concepts used in defining a poetics of resistance, including Barbara Harlow’s definition of …