Esmeralda Santiago in the marketplace of identity politics
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| author | María Acosta Cruz |
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| contents | Esmeralda Santiago in the marketplace of identity politics María Acosta Cruz Sociología docility stereotypes authenticity market politics Latino identities Esmeralda Santiag o s Américas Dream, with its ahistorical subjectivismand idealization of an agrarian past, offers a Latino docile Puerto Ricanas the nov e l s central protagonist. This article explores the following: themarketability of Latinos, Puerto Rican literary history, and identityformation. Santiagos nostalgia positions her ideologically within1930s1950s Puerto Rican writing. Santiag o s te r ruño presents anarrative model (exclusively working class characters, binary gender roles,an agrarian setting, a disconnection from contemporary culture) thatreinvents the ste r e o t ype of the docile Puerto Rican. Américas Dreamoffers no interplay of hybridityone of the defining characteristics ofLatino, and Puerto Rican identities. 2006 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37718110 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.1 Vol.XVIII |
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| publisher | The City University of New York |
| spellingShingle | Esmeralda Santiago in the marketplace of identity politics María Acosta Cruz Sociología docility stereotypes authenticity market politics Latino identities Esmeralda Santiago in the marketplace of identity politics María Acosta Cruz Sociología docility stereotypes authenticity market politics Latino identities Esmeralda Santiag o s Américas Dream, with its ahistorical subjectivismand idealization of an agrarian past, offers a Latino docile Puerto Ricanas the nov e l s central protagonist. This article explores the following: themarketability of Latinos, Puerto Rican literary history, and identityformation. Santiagos nostalgia positions her ideologically within1930s1950s Puerto Rican writing. Santiag o s te r ruño presents anarrative model (exclusively working class characters, binary gender roles,an agrarian setting, a disconnection from contemporary culture) thatreinvents the ste r e o t ype of the docile Puerto Rican. Américas Dreamoffers no interplay of hybridityone of the defining characteristics ofLatino, and Puerto Rican identities. 2006 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37718110 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.1 Vol.XVIII |
| title | Esmeralda Santiago in the marketplace of identity politics |
| topic | Sociología docility stereotypes authenticity market politics Latino identities |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37718110 |