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...

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Publicado en:	Centro Journal Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 152 - 186
Autor principal:	IRIZARRY, YLCE
Formato:	Literary Criticism
Publicado:	Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) Spring2015
Materias:	Bodega Dreams (Book) Quiñonez, Ernesto American fiction East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) in literature Puerto Rican Americans Nuyorican Movement Place (Philosophy) in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Themes in literature Literary criticism Social history Puerto Rican authors East Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
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