The Impossible Dream: The Great Gatsby, Bodega Dreams and the Colonial Difference.

This article argues for a reading of Ernesto Quiñonez's novel Bodega Dreams as a post-colonial response to F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic Jazz Age novel The Great Gatsby. In probing the intertextual connections between the two novels, this paper argues that Quiñonez's engagement with Fitzgerald's tex...

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Publicado en:Centro Journal Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 99 - 128
Autor principal: PÉREZ, LORNA L.
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Publicado: Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) Fall2021
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