Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodriguez

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Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodriguez is written by Ben Olguin and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 139952061X (ISBN 10) and 9781399520614 (ISBN 13).

Luis Rodriguez is a prominent Latinx poet, memoirist and activist renowned for his candid visceral accounts of urban working-class life that includes youth gang violence, incarceration and drug abuse, gruelling factory work and union organising activities and collective approaches to redemption and political empowerment, which have resonated across multiple communities in the United States and abroad. Accordingly, whilst Rodriguez has been the focus of some critical scholarship, huge segments of his life, work and legacy remain unexamined. This anthology has commissioned new and unique critical essays and reflections on Rodriguez's life and works, putting forward new ideas about bringing the voices of 'barrio organic intellectuals' to the fore. The anthology deliberately includes traditional academics as well as more public intellectuals and creative writers from across Europe and the Americas to reflect Rodriguez's own diverse outputs as a prisoner author and activist.