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Gritos en la llovizna
Lenguaje: SuecoPáginas: 292Casa editorial: Bokförlaget Wan Zhi Traductor: Anna Gustafsson ChenTítulo original: Zai xiyu zhong huhan ISBN: 9789198347746 Como decía, no soy lector de un solo idioma. Ni siquiera podría acercarme a un intento de lectura netamente monolingüe. La idea … Continue reading
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Quinto comment II
In relation to the Fifth Comment: Here in Sweden, Swedes can’t see beyond my ethnic look or what their eyes tell them I am. A brown person. So the idea of an American has also been hijacked by color lines. … Continue reading
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Jovita Gonzáles 8th comment
In A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles1 a seldom researched area is taken to task, namely, that of assimilation of Anglos in what is a predominantly Spanish-Mexican dominated territory era. Anglos converted to Catholicism and abade by Hispanic customs. … Continue reading
Jovita Gonzáles 7th comment
Carmen Fought has done a remarkable job by giving us a structured form of ChE. I haven’t read Chicano English in Context through and through though but I have stopped in certain passages where my eyes have noticed the value … Continue reading
Jovita Gonzáles 6th comment
By mistake I wrote Dew of the Thorn and once realizing my mistake I came upon a significance for the title of the book. I realized that dew is one of those things that is reminiscent of a new start. … Continue reading
Jovita Gonzáles Fifth comment
I have fallen in love with page 150 of Dew on the Thorn by Jovita Gonzáles1. It’s a chapter entitled The New Leader and it’s about the second Fernando of the Olivares family, born 1871. He is a half gringo … Continue reading
Jovita Gonzáles Fourth comment
The authority of Tío Esteban, the new mail carrier, in “a forlorn-looking two wheeled vehicle” is an interesting passage. There is a palpable break. A sign that the Usted and tú borderlines of the Spanish language have ceased to permeate … Continue reading
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Jovita Gonzáles Comment 3
In Dew on the Thorn by Jovita Gonzáles1 the color of races play a significant role, gringos have blue eyes and servants are dark. Yet more interesting is the fact that the Caste system plays a role in the late … Continue reading
The secret life of Francis Cornish
In this essay I will use New Historicist Literary Criticism to try and understand a little better Robertson Davies What’s Bred in the Bone. This particular school of criticism lends itself quite nicely to this book because the milieu, embedded … Continue reading
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Jovita Gonzáles Comment 2
In Dew on the Thorn by Jovita Gonzáles1, the Anglo plays a rather significant roll not because we are not familiar with the eternal binomial in Chicano narrative between gringos and Chicanos but because it is an early ground we … Continue reading →