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The City University of New York
2006
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- ¡¿Qué, qué?!Transculturación and Tato Laviera's Spanglish poetics Stephanie Álvarez Martínez Sociología Spanglish Tato Laviera Transculturation Latino Literature Nuyorican Language In this article, I begin with a brief synopsis of Laviera´s fourpoetry collections, followed by a detailed analysis of selectedpoems from all four collections in order to demonstrate howLaviera displays a unique transcultural cosmology throughlanguage. First, I discuss poems that deal with the relationshipsbetween languages and how they affect one´s identity.Next, I explore Laviera´s emphasis on the non-European rootsin the transcultural process and how this emphasis revealstransculturation as a resistance strategy. Similarly, an analysis ofLaviera´s stress on popular culture, orality, and music furtheremphasizes Laviera´s transcult-ural philosophy as a means ofsurvival and creativity. Lastly, I describe Laviera´s homage tocertain poets and declamadores, as well as his insistence upon theNuyorican´s contribution to the formation of Puerto Ricanculture. Together, these various points demonstrate howthrough transculturation Nuyoricans and Latinos transformtheir language to reflect their biculturalism, and create anentirely new code 2006 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37718202 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.2 Vol.XVIII