Because Place Still Matters: Mapping Puertorriqueñidad in Bodega Dreams.
This article examines how Bodega Dreams (Ernesto Quiñonez 2000) engages post-1960s Nuyorican literary aesthetics. I argue Quiñonez simultaneously draws on and challenges these aesthetics' efficacy in community empowerment. Bodega Dreams speaks most closely to Piri Thomas' germinal novel, Down These...
| Publicado en: | Centro Journal Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 152 - 186 |
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Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)
Spring2015
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