The New York City launching of Frederick Luciani‘s José María Heredia in New York, 1823-1825, An Exiled Cuban Poet in the Age of Revolution, Selected Letters and Verse, an English translation, with introduction and annotations, of a selection of the letters and verse that José 
María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), wrote during his months of political exile in New York from November 1823 to August 1825. The importance of this unprecedented volume cannot be overstated, since it exposes a wide English-speaking audience to the literary legacy of an exemplary poet, long regarded as the father of Latin American romanticism.
Frederick Luciani is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Latin American Studies at Colgate University. He is the author of Literary Self-Fashioning in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. He will be presented by award-winning literary critic Adriana Méndez Rodenas, professor of Caribbean and Latin American Literatures in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Missouri. She has written amply on Cuban literature, including her signature book, Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba: The Travels of Santa Cruz y Montalvo, Condesa de Merlin (1998).
The presentation will be in English, followed by a bilingual Q&A with the audience.
This event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature.
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This event is co-sponsored by Instituto Cervantes
And is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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