Renee Hudson
Renee Hudson is an Assistant Professor and Director of Latinx & Latin American Studies at Chapman University. Her first book project, titled Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas, is forthcoming from Fordham University Press and examines how contemporary Latinx literature illustrates the hemispheric convergence of Latin American independence movements and the long history of US occupations and interventions.
This book emphasizes the co-authorship that a poetics of disappropriation makes visible. In fact, strangely enough, in a book full of images, it’s the words that offer a snapshot of our political life during the pandemic and the shared language that emerged from it.
This collection is an extended meditation on archipelagic consciousness, a poetics that rejects the metonymic hegemony of the island of Puerto Rico as standing in for the unincorporated territory that includes Puerto Rico and the surrounding islands, including Mona (the setting for amoná) and Vieques (the setting for subtropical dry).
