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Redreaming America: Toward a Bilingual American Culture

By Debra A. Castillo

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0791462978, 9780791462973, 0791462986, 9780791462980, 9781423743644
LCC
PS153.H56 C37 2005
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2172661 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
Pages
241\241
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

What would American literature look like in languages other than English, and what would Latin American literature look like if we understood the United States to be a Latin American country and took seriously the work by U.S. Latinos/as in Spanish? Debra A. Castillo explores these questions by highlighting the contributions of Latinos/as writing in Spanish and Spanglish. Beginning with the anonymously published 1826 novel Jicot?ncal and ending with fiction published at the turn of the twenty-first century, the book details both the characters’ and authors’ struggles with how to define an American self. Writers from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Mexico are featured prominently, alongside a sampling of those writers from other Latin American heritages (Peru, Colombia, Chile). Castillo concludes by offering some thoughts on U.S. curricular practice.

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