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Killing Spanish - Literary Essays on Ambivalent U.S. Latino/a Identity (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
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Killing Spanish - Literary Essays on Ambivalent U.S. Latino/a Identity (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
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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 Sandin explores -- ranging from work by the Cuban
American Cristina Garcia to the island Puerto Rican Rosario Ferre
-- 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 Diaz, 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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