Sep 30, 2019
Cristina Pérez Jiménez Co-Edits First Bilingual Scholarly Edition of Manhattan Tropics/Trópico in Manhattan
Cristina Pérez Jiménez, Ph.D., assistant professor of English at Manhattan College, has co-edited the first ever bilingual, scholarly edition of Manhattan Tropics/Trópico in Manhattan in Arte Público Press’s prestigious Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Series.
Originally published in 1951, Manhattan Tropics is the first novel about the Puerto Rican mass migration to NYC, and an important forerunner of Nuyorican and contemporary US Latinx literature. Translated by Bret Maney, with a critical introduction by Cristina Pérez Jiménez, Manhatttan Tropics is available at Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1558858814/.