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Mayra Santos-Febres is a Puerto Rican author, poet, novelist, professor of literature, essayist, and literary critic and author of children’s books. Her work focuses on themes of race, diaspora identity, female sexuality, gender fluidity, desire, and power. Her latest book, La otra Julia (The Other Julia), a fictionalized account of the emblematic and controversial Julia de Burgos. What began as a simple assignment, writing about Julia, ends up as a map to understand the lives of so many Latin American authors, including her own. Join Santos-Febres at Cumbre for a behind the scenes look into her latest book.
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Mayra Santos-Febres is a Puerto Rican author, poet, novelist, professor of literature, essayist, and literary critic and author of children’s books. Her work focuses on themes of race, diaspora identity, female sexuality, gender fluidity, desire, and power. Her latest book, La otra Julia (The Other Julia), a fictionalized account of the emblematic and controversial Julia de Burgos. What began as a simple assignment, writing about Julia, ends up as a map to understand the lives of so many Latin American authors, including her own. Join Santos-Febres at Cumbre for a behind the scenes look into her latest book.
Founded in 1973 by a coalition of students, faculty, and activists, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) is the largest university-based research institute, library, and archive dedicated to the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. Learn more at centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
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