
Redreaming America
Toward a Bilingual American Culture
Debra A. Castillo(Author)
State University of New York Press
Published on 9. December 2004
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7914-6297-3 (ISBN)
Description
Pursues an inquiry into the cultural and linguistic dissonances that Spanish creates in the United States.
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 Jicotencal 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.
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 Jicotencal 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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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
449 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-6297-3 (9780791462973)
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02/2012
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Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor of Romance Studies and of Comparative Literature at Cornell University and the coauthor (with Maria-Socorro Tabuenca Cordoba) of Border Women: Writing from La Frontera.
Content
1. Introduction: El Boom Latino
2. Origins: Bird and Jicotencal
3. Crossing: Vega, Gonzalez Viana, Fuentes, Oropeza
4. Arrival: Dorfman, Salazar, Sainz, Rivera-Valdes
5. Language Games: Hinojosa-Smith, Prida, Braschi
6. Conclusion: Hemispheric American Studies
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2. Origins: Bird and Jicotencal
3. Crossing: Vega, Gonzalez Viana, Fuentes, Oropeza
4. Arrival: Dorfman, Salazar, Sainz, Rivera-Valdes
5. Language Games: Hinojosa-Smith, Prida, Braschi
6. Conclusion: Hemispheric American Studies
Notes
Works Cited
Index