When Being is Not a Burden: Naomi Ayala and the Re-Embodying Poetics of Neo-Riqueña Discourse

Authors

Roberta Barki

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 2011

Abstract

The article offers poetry criticism on the poems "Perfection" and "Crickets," by Puerto Rican poet Naomi Ayala. It is inferred that the poems of Ayala address various issues concerning genderized racialism against Puerto Ricans. The representations of mind and body fracturing in the poems are explained which reflect the internalization of U.S. colonial rhetoric.

Recommended Citation

Barki, R. (2011). When Being is Not a Burden: Naomi Ayala and the Re-Embodying Poetics of Neo-Riqueña Discourse. Jostes: The Journal of South Texas English Studies, 2(2), 1-26.

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Volume

2

Issue

2

First Page

1

Last Page

26

ISSN

2153-778X