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Killing Spanish
- Literary Essays on Ambivalent U.S. Latino/a Identity
Af: L. Sandin
Engelsk Paperback
Killing Spanish
- Literary Essays on Ambivalent U.S. Latino/a Identity
Af: L. Sandin
Engelsk Paperback

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Killing Spanish suggests that the doubles, madwomen and other raging characters that populate the pages of contemporary U.S. Latino/a literature allegorize ambivalence about both present American identity and past Caribbean and Latin American origins. The family novels Sandín explores -- ranging from work by the Cuban American Cristina García to the island Puerto Rican Rosario Ferré -- uncover the split between Americanized protagonists and their families, a split usually resolved through the killing of a character representing origins. Race and class differences, and poverty, cause protagonists in work by the Nuyoricans Piri Thomas, the Dominican American Junot Díaz, and others, to embrace the street as the new Latino home. If the family novels exact the death of "Spanish" in the person of a double character, the urban fiction and poetry project the "mean" street, churning with the productive and destructive energies of ambivalence, as the landscape of the fragmented U.S. Latino/a psyche.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
167
ISBN-13:
9780230617513
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0230617514
Udg. Dato:
14 sep 2009
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
155mm
Højde:
235mm
Forlag:
Palgrave Macmillan
Oplagsdato:
14 sep 2009
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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