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Sandra María Esteves
Sandra María Esteves
Sandra María Esteves is one of the few female voices that was part of the well-known Nuyorican poetry movement during its early years in the 1970s in New York City.
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  • Diaspora
  • 03/08/2021
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Sotero Figueroa Hernández
Sotero Figueroa Hernández
One of the most tireless defenders of independence for Puerto Rico under Spanish colonial rule, Sotero Figueroa was a mulatto artisan who, in addition to working as a typographer, was also a journalist, poet and playwright.
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  • Diaspora
  • 24/06/2021
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Julia De Burgos
Julia De Burgos
The contradictions and complexity of the human being, in constant social interaction, dynamic and conflicting, are some of the themes present in this writer’s poetry.
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  • Literature
  • 24/06/2021
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Miguel Piñero
Miguel Piñero
Part of Miguel Piñero’s literary prominence stems from his association with the Nuyorican poetic movement.
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  • Diaspora
  • 23/05/2021
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Piri Thomas
Piri Thomas
He was one of the first second generation Puerto Rican writers of the diaspora to publish an autobiographical novel about his experiences as a black Puerto Rican, born and raised in New York’s El Barrio (Spanish Harlem) during the years of the Great Depression.
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  • Diaspora
  • 23/05/2021
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Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire
Creator of the concept of negritud, with the help of his lifelong Senegalese friend, Leopold Sedar Senghor, who later became president of that African country.
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  • Caribbean
  • 18/05/2021
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