Jesús y Concha Colón: A Puerto Rican Story of Love, Tradition, Migration and Modernity in Early 20th Century New York.

COLON, Jesus, 1901-1974; PUERTO Rican authors; LOVE letters; COLON, Concha; SPOUSES' legal relationship; PUERTO Ricans; PUERTO Rican Americans; TWENTIETH century

Jesús Colón's stated mission about writing in English to address the misconceptions about Puerto Ricans points to his archived letters to his wife Concha as the foundation of a story never told: an authentic Puerto Rican love story that grows up, politically and emotionally, on the page. Before he wrote political articles in radical newspapers and vignettes, he wrote letters to Concha professing love, exploring his ideas about life in New York, writing, art and politics; essentially his love letters allowed his writing, and his desire to write, to emerge in the safety of love. It is a love that becomes a foundation for the love that drove his work in his community and his writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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