{"pk":47924,"title":"Cortex","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>My work centers on prose and lyrical poetry surrounding diasporic Central American narratives. I explore the stories of my family and their surrounding communities. Focusing on the loss, familial separation, colonization, and displacement that have occurred under the various adiministrations from Reagan through to Trump, my work investigates the first-hand effects of US intervention, immigrant journeys, generational trauma, and community resilience. “Cortex” is part of a cycle of poems written during the election season of 2024. The poems aim to understand the connection between longing and homesickness in times of explicit racism and bias. What does the diaspora call home in times like these? </p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Poetry"},{"word":"2024 US presidential election"},{"word":"migration"},{"word":"Central America diaspora"},{"word":"Transnational American Studies"}],"section":"Special Section: Reflections on the US 2024 Elections in a Global Context","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7kc0w43h","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Colorado","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of New Mexico","department":"English","country":"United States"}],"date_submitted":"2025-05-25T01:52:43.103000Z","date_accepted":"2025-05-25T02:40:42.981000Z","date_published":"2025-08-03T18:37:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/47924/galley/38550/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/47924/galley/38550/download/"}]}