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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Published in:	Centro Journal Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 99 - 128
Main Author:	PÉREZ, LORNA L.
Format:	Article
Published:	Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) Fall2021
Subjects:	Bodega Dreams (Book) Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 Great Gatsby, The (Book : Fitzgerald) Puerto Rican Americans Hispanic Americans
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