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"""The book makes Puerto Rican literary history tremble. By desedimenting the metaphysical ground of historicism's cosmo-poietics, openings emerge for rereading the canonical poet Julia de Burgos. I can think of nothing more difficult and faithful--as a scholar--than the reading procedure of danger, which confronts incalculable vulnerability.""---Ren Ellis Neyra, Wesleyan University"

Moving with passionate fluency between close reading, historical desedimentation, and conceptual articulation, Catastrophic Historicism recovers beneath the legend of Julia de Burgos the problem she inscribed in her own verse: that of the proper name itself. This brilliant work of literary theory shows us how deeply we need to think in order to grasp anew the dangerous sense of all the names of literary history.---Nathan Brown, Concordia University The book makes Puerto Rican literary history tremble. By desedimenting the metaphysical ground of historicism's cosmo-poietics, openings emerge for rereading the canonical poet Julia de Burgos. I can think of nothing more difficult and faithful--as a scholar--than the reading procedure of danger, which confronts incalculable vulnerability.---Ren Ellis Neyra, Wesleyan University

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Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.

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