Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America - Brossura

Morales, Ed

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312310005 ISBN 13: 9780312310004

Casa editrice: St. Martin's Griffin, 2003

Riassunto

A thought-provoking look at Latino cuture explores the current landscape of America, which both embraces and cautiously confronts Latino influence, exploring the individual's response to cultural stereotypes and discussing how to live honestly with one's heritage while creating a brand new culture. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Ed Morales is a Village Voice staff reporter who has contributed to numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, The Miami Herald, San Francisco Examiner, The Los Angeles Time and The Nation. He is also a poet whose work has appeared in Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café and a fiction writer included in Iguana Dreams and Boricuas.

Product Description:

Chicano. Cubano. Pachuco. Nuyorican. Puerto Rican. Boricua. Quisqueya. Tejano. To be Latino in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has meant to fierce identification with roots, with forbears, with the language, art and food your people came here with. America is a patchwork of Hispanic sensibilities-from Puerto Rican nationalists in New York to more newly arrived Mexicans in the Rio Grande valley-that has so far resisted homogenization while managing to absorb much of the mainstream culture. "Living in Spanglish" delves deep into the individual's response to Latino stereotypes and suggests that their ability to hold on to their heritage, while at the same time working to create a culture that is entirely new, is a key component of America's future. In this book, Morales pins down a hugely diverse community-of Dominicans, Mexicans, Colombians, Cubans, Salvadorans and Puerto Ricans--that he insists has more common interests to bring it together than traditions to divide it. He calls this sensibility Spanglish, one that is inherently multicultural, and proposes that Spanglish "describes a feeling, an attitude that is quintessentially American. It is a culture with one foot in the medieval and the other in the next century." In "Living in Spanglish," Ed Morales paints a portrait of America as it is now, both embracing and unsure how to face an onslaught of Latino influence. His book is the story of groups of Hispanic immigrants struggling to move beyond identity politics into a postmodern melting pot.

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• Editore: St. Martin's Griffin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312310005
• ISBN 13: 9780312310004
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 322