Author: Guillermo Cotto-Thorner
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 1518505767
Category : Fiction
Languages : un
Pages : 484
Book Description
“Walking underground” for the first time in his life, Juan Marcos Villalobos, a freshly arrived migrant to New York City, offers his seat to a woman standing on the subway. Though his English isn’t up to her rude reply, he quickly realizes that good manners in Nueva York are quite different than in Puerto Rico! Juan Marcos is eager to continue his studies in the United States and rents a room from family friends living in El Barrio, or Spanish Harlem. Soon, he has a job wrapping packages at a department store that pays as much as he made teaching high school at home. As he interacts with the Puerto Rican community in New York, he witnesses the problems his compatriots encounter, including discrimination, inadequate housing, jobs and wages. Despite these problems, friendships and romances bloom and rivalries surface, leading to betrayal and even attempted murder! Originally published in 1951 as Trópico en Manhattan, it was the first novel to focus on the postwar influx of Puerto Ricans to New York. Cotto-Thorner’s use of code-switching, or “Spanglish,” reflects the characters’ bicultural reality and makes the novel a forerunner of Nuyorican writing and contemporary Latino literature. This new bilingual edition contains a first-ever English translation by J. Bret Maney that artfully captures the style and spirit of the original Spanish. The novel’s exploration of class, race and gender—while demonstrating the community’s resilience and cultural pride—ensures its relevance today.
Manhattan Tropics / Trópico en Manhattan
Author: Guillermo Cotto-Thorner
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 1518505767
Category : Fiction
Languages : un
Pages : 484
Book Description
“Walking underground” for the first time in his life, Juan Marcos Villalobos, a freshly arrived migrant to New York City, offers his seat to a woman standing on the subway. Though his English isn’t up to her rude reply, he quickly realizes that good manners in Nueva York are quite different than in Puerto Rico! Juan Marcos is eager to continue his studies in the United States and rents a room from family friends living in El Barrio, or Spanish Harlem. Soon, he has a job wrapping packages at a department store that pays as much as he made teaching high school at home. As he interacts with the Puerto Rican community in New York, he witnesses the problems his compatriots encounter, including discrimination, inadequate housing, jobs and wages. Despite these problems, friendships and romances bloom and rivalries surface, leading to betrayal and even attempted murder! Originally published in 1951 as Trópico en Manhattan, it was the first novel to focus on the postwar influx of Puerto Ricans to New York. Cotto-Thorner’s use of code-switching, or “Spanglish,” reflects the characters’ bicultural reality and makes the novel a forerunner of Nuyorican writing and contemporary Latino literature. This new bilingual edition contains a first-ever English translation by J. Bret Maney that artfully captures the style and spirit of the original Spanish. The novel’s exploration of class, race and gender—while demonstrating the community’s resilience and cultural pride—ensures its relevance today.
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 1518505767
Category : Fiction
Languages : un
Pages : 484
Book Description
“Walking underground” for the first time in his life, Juan Marcos Villalobos, a freshly arrived migrant to New York City, offers his seat to a woman standing on the subway. Though his English isn’t up to her rude reply, he quickly realizes that good manners in Nueva York are quite different than in Puerto Rico! Juan Marcos is eager to continue his studies in the United States and rents a room from family friends living in El Barrio, or Spanish Harlem. Soon, he has a job wrapping packages at a department store that pays as much as he made teaching high school at home. As he interacts with the Puerto Rican community in New York, he witnesses the problems his compatriots encounter, including discrimination, inadequate housing, jobs and wages. Despite these problems, friendships and romances bloom and rivalries surface, leading to betrayal and even attempted murder! Originally published in 1951 as Trópico en Manhattan, it was the first novel to focus on the postwar influx of Puerto Ricans to New York. Cotto-Thorner’s use of code-switching, or “Spanglish,” reflects the characters’ bicultural reality and makes the novel a forerunner of Nuyorican writing and contemporary Latino literature. This new bilingual edition contains a first-ever English translation by J. Bret Maney that artfully captures the style and spirit of the original Spanish. The novel’s exploration of class, race and gender—while demonstrating the community’s resilience and cultural pride—ensures its relevance today.
Manhattan Tropics
Author: Guillermo Cotto-Thorner
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781558858817
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Walking underground" for the first time in his life, Juan Marcos Villalobos, a freshly arrived migrant to New York City, offers his seat to a woman standing on the subway. Though his English isn't up to her rude reply, he quickly realizes that good manners in Nueva York are quite different than in Puerto Rico! Juan Marcos is eager to continue his studies in the United States and rents a room from family friends living in El Barrio, or Spanish Harlem. Soon, he has a job wrapping packages at a department store that pays as much as he made teaching high school at home. As he interacts with the Puerto Rican community in New York, he witnesses the problems his compatriots encounter, including discrimination, inadequate housing, jobs and wages. Despite these problems, friendships and romances bloom and rivalries surface, leading to betrayal and even attempted murder! Originally published in 1951 as Tropico en Manhattan, it was the first novel to focus on the postwar influx of Puerto Ricans to New York. Cotto-Thorner's use of code-switching, or "Spanglish," reflects the characters' bicultural reality and makes the novel a forerunner of Nuyorican writing and contemporary Latino literature. This new bilingual edition contains a first-ever English translation by J. Bret Maney that artfully captures the style and spirit of the original Spanish. The novel's exploration of class, race and gender"¬‚¬"while demonstrating the community's resilience and cultural pride"¬‚¬"ensures its relevance today.
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781558858817
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Walking underground" for the first time in his life, Juan Marcos Villalobos, a freshly arrived migrant to New York City, offers his seat to a woman standing on the subway. Though his English isn't up to her rude reply, he quickly realizes that good manners in Nueva York are quite different than in Puerto Rico! Juan Marcos is eager to continue his studies in the United States and rents a room from family friends living in El Barrio, or Spanish Harlem. Soon, he has a job wrapping packages at a department store that pays as much as he made teaching high school at home. As he interacts with the Puerto Rican community in New York, he witnesses the problems his compatriots encounter, including discrimination, inadequate housing, jobs and wages. Despite these problems, friendships and romances bloom and rivalries surface, leading to betrayal and even attempted murder! Originally published in 1951 as Tropico en Manhattan, it was the first novel to focus on the postwar influx of Puerto Ricans to New York. Cotto-Thorner's use of code-switching, or "Spanglish," reflects the characters' bicultural reality and makes the novel a forerunner of Nuyorican writing and contemporary Latino literature. This new bilingual edition contains a first-ever English translation by J. Bret Maney that artfully captures the style and spirit of the original Spanish. The novel's exploration of class, race and gender"¬‚¬"while demonstrating the community's resilience and cultural pride"¬‚¬"ensures its relevance today.
Herencia
Author: Nicolás Kanellos
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195138244
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
A major anthology of Hispanic writing in the U.S., ranging from the early Spanish explorers to the present day.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195138244
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
A major anthology of Hispanic writing in the U.S., ranging from the early Spanish explorers to the present day.
Trow (formerly Wilson's) Copartnership and Corporation Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, City of New York
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Catalog of the Latin American Collection
Author: University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American Collection
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Recovering The U.S Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume I
Author: RamÑn A. Guti?rrez
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611922622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage is a compendium of articles by the leading scholars on Hispanic literary history of the United States. The anthology functions to acquaint both expert and neophyte with the work that has been done to date on this literary history, to outline the agenda for recovering the lost Hispanic literary heritage and to discuss the pressing questions of canonization, social class, gender and identity that must be addressed in restoring the lost or inaccessible history and literature of any people.
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611922622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage is a compendium of articles by the leading scholars on Hispanic literary history of the United States. The anthology functions to acquaint both expert and neophyte with the work that has been done to date on this literary history, to outline the agenda for recovering the lost Hispanic literary heritage and to discuss the pressing questions of canonization, social class, gender and identity that must be addressed in restoring the lost or inaccessible history and literature of any people.
Polk's (Trow's) New York Copartnership and Corporation Directory, Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
All a We a One
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
David P. Young "All a we a one: a Caribbean scrapbook" is the great love for the Caribbean shines through these pages, as author and photographer David Young tries to depict the real Caribbean. The people are wonderful. The variety is endless. And in that variety I have encountered more expressions of human dignity and worth than I ever imagined were possible, he writes. Identity and unity, thoughts and dreams, people, words and music, religious plurality, economic realities, historical roots and future choices. These he depicts in scraps of folktales and speeches, poetry and song, statistics and impressions. His collection of words and photographs portrays many facets of life in the islands as well as the mainland countries of the Caribbean. With Dave Young's eyes, we see and know our neighbors better.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
David P. Young "All a we a one: a Caribbean scrapbook" is the great love for the Caribbean shines through these pages, as author and photographer David Young tries to depict the real Caribbean. The people are wonderful. The variety is endless. And in that variety I have encountered more expressions of human dignity and worth than I ever imagined were possible, he writes. Identity and unity, thoughts and dreams, people, words and music, religious plurality, economic realities, historical roots and future choices. These he depicts in scraps of folktales and speeches, poetry and song, statistics and impressions. His collection of words and photographs portrays many facets of life in the islands as well as the mainland countries of the Caribbean. With Dave Young's eyes, we see and know our neighbors better.
Manhattan, People and Their Space
Author: Roberte Mestdagh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Manhattan
Author: John Myers O'Hara
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description