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With his first short-story collection, The Boy without a Flag: Tales of the South Bronx (1992), Abraham Rodriguez established himself as one of the leading Latino writers of his generation, part of a wave of successful authors who emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s that includes the Dominican Junot Díaz, the Cuban American Achy Obejas, the Chicanos Diego Vázquez Jr, Yxta Maya Murray, and Dagoberto Gilb, and the Nuyorican Ernesto Quiñones. Rodriguez’s reputation was consolidated by the publication of the novels Spidertown (1993) and The Buddha Book (2001). Both texts confirmed Rodriguez as an uncompromising and decidedly unromantic chronicler of the disenfranchised Nuyorican youth of New York’s South Bronx, or El Bronx, and a gifted transmitter of Nuyorican English. Mainstream publishing success and laudatory book reviews in major U.S. newspapers and magazines, and the inclusion of his fiction in Puerto Rican, Latino, and American literature courses in schools and universities across the United States, and beyond, also attest to Rodriguez’s reputation. Alongside these achievements, however, Rodriguez’s confrontational representations of El Bronx, and his public comments on his literary elders, have embroiled him in a highly charged debate about the sociocultural validity and political impact of Nuyorican literary and cultural productions. Despite the significance of that debate, Rodriguez’s writing has to date attracted surprisingly little academic attention, perhaps a reflection of a general critical resistance to the author’s outspoken public persona and his unapologetic characterizations of an embattled and violence-prone inner city.
Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultural y Literatura
When I was Puerto Rican as borderland narrative-Bridging Caribbean and U.S. Latino literature2009 •
"Guavas for Dummies, American Jíbaras, & Postnational Autonomy: When I Was Puerto Rican in the Hemispheric Turn" (2019) re-engages this text after I taught it in Puerto Rico four years. In this 2009 essay, Santiago’s memoir is said to bridge U.S. and Caribbean lit. WIWPR begins with a remembered Puerto Rico, and ends in the author’s adulthood in the USA. Studying Santiago’s text within a trajectory of immigrant narratives familiarizes the text to readers who are often processing their own entries into the US / its cultural orbit. This essay examines Santiago’s representation of jibaros, a subculture whose place in in Puerto Rico parallels the conflicted relationship many Jamaicans have with Rastafarians. Also, the theme of “Translating and Resisting Imperialism” is developed through a close reading of the chapter “The American Invasion of MacÚn.” Santiago’s treatment of gender roles in her family is also explored.
Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature
On Latinidad: U. S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity (review)2009 •
ELT Horizons
ANOTHER AMERICAN LITERATURE: TWO CHICANO NOVELS2003 •
The Mexicans living in the USA have been struggling with a wide range of negative stereotypes and clichés deeply embedded in mainstream American literature and public thinking since times long before the treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo. Literature has been added to social protest and political movements as a means of fighting the negative ideas concerning their community. For constraints of space, the present paper focuses on Chicano novel, and does not deal with poetry or the Campesino Theatre. As Leal and Barrón assert, "The most effective form for the literature of social protest has been the novel." (23) One of the first classic novels of Chicano literature is Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. The novel is summed up briefly by Shirley and Shirley in the following way: [it] is concerned with the maturation of a young boy [...l and his relationship with his spiritual guide, the Última of the title. She is a curandera, a wise woman, a dispenser of curing herbs and potions who also heals with spiritual advice and some '"magic."' (105) The world of Última is the closed, a relatively well-protected world of the family, where people know their place and the community takes care of them. Nobody is left alone when too old or ill to take care of himself or herself: '"Gabriel, we cannot let her live her last days in loneliness. .. No,"' my father agreed. 'It is not the way of our people."' (3) The mother, whose ages-old task is keeping up the family and preserving its integrity at all times, initiates steps to receive somebody in need, and the father agrees. After all, that is "the way of our people." The importance of family ties as a central point in the value system of the Chicanos is made clear in the very first pages of the book. It is in this environment that young Antonio grows up. In addition to family bonds, religion is also a central part in the life of the community. Antonio even finds it difficult to accept Christian faith and Última's alleged powers as a witch at the same time. Finally he finds satisfaction in believing that both religion and Última's witchcraft serve good purposes. The outside world is a distant place, the characters of the novel are rarely exposed to it. Such an is when the boys go to school. They expect a lot from it, but when they realize that not much attention is paid to the specific needs of Chicanos, and therefore education was not the same thing to them as to Anglos, they are no longer really interested-Anaya's published in 1972 to become one of the most widely known and best selling Chicano literary works. Another novel that rapidly received great acclain is Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in Los Angeles
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TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World
Review: Latinx Writing Los Angeles: Nonfiction Dispatches from a Decolonial Rebellion (2018)2020 •
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The most obvious but also the most important question for a field or a journal called Latino Studies is: how best to use the term Latino? Asking this question means considering the ways in which thinking in terms of such a category is both problematic and productive, as well as reflecting on exactly what the use of this label achieves. Marta Caminero-Santangelo’s book On Latinidad speaks to this issue in two fascinating, interlinked ways: first, she examines the identity ‘‘Latino/a’’ and the larger community that term is meant to describe, arguing as her point of departure that it exists only as an imaginary idea, and yet exerts enormous pressure on how people think about themselves and are thought of by others; and second, she considers the role that literature plays in constructing the content and boundaries of that identity. Books such as Suzanne Oboler’s Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives or Juan Flores’ From Bomba to Hip Hop have previously explored how categories like Latino/a are so...
Examines the relationship between abject masculinities and diasporic Puerto Rican literature in New York comparing the place of migrants and queers in diasporic writing in New York and in Puerto Rican culture from the perspective of Kristeva's theories of abjection, queer theory and theories about colonialism and race in the work of Frantz Fanon. It examines in this light the works of Luis Rafael Sanchez, Pedro Pietri, Miguel Pinero, Piri Thomas and Manuel Ramos Otero.
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Neologisms and Other Difficult Terms in the Sefer ha Zohar: Novel Interpretations III, in: Kabbalah. Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts. Vol. 57: 38-58
Neologisms and Other Difficult Terms in the Sefer ha Zohar Novel Interpretations III (Abstract )2024 •
New Theatre Quarterly
Is the animal event possible? Animal precariousness and moral indeterminacy in performance2018 •
Bloomsbury History Theory and Method
Edmundo O'Gorman - Bloomsbury History Theory and Method2024 •
El proceso de evangelización en Hispanoamérica, siglos XVI-XIX
Arias, Y. (2023). Ritualidad festiva en torno a la figura de santa Rosa de Santa María. En D. León y N. Urra (eds.) El proceso de evangelización en Hispanoamérica, siglos XVI-XIX (pp. 213-236). Universidad Ricardo Palma.2023 •
European Urology Supplements
738 The concordance between volume hotspot and grade hotspot: A 3D reconstructive model using pathology outputs from the PROMIS multicenter trial2014 •
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Sustainability
The Long Road to Low-Carbon Holidays: Exploring Holiday-Making Behaviour of People Living in a Middle-Sized Swiss City2024 •
Journal of Applied Crystallography
Growth and annealing kinetics of α-sexithiophene and fullerene C60mixed films2016 •
Journal of Tissue Engineering
A methodology for the production of microfabricated electrospun membranes for the creation of new skin regeneration models2018 •
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Conservation Biology
Genetically informed captive breeding of hybrids of an extinct species of Galapagos tortoise2019 •
Tobacco Prevention & Cessation
Establishing a community-based smoke-free homes movement in Indonesia2018 •