Redreaming America: Toward a Bilingual American Culture by Debra A. Castillo
By Debra A. Castillo
What could American literature seem like in languages except English, and what might Latin American literature appear like if we understood the us to be a Latin American state and took heavily the paintings through U.S. Latinos/as in Spanish? Debra A. Castillo explores those questions via highlighting the contributions of Latinos/as writing in Spanish and Spanglish. starting with the anonymously released 1826 novel Jicoténcal and finishing with fiction released on the flip of the twenty-first century, the e-book info either the characters’ and authors’ struggles with how to find an American self. Writers from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Mexico are featured prominently, along a sampling of these writers from different Latin American heritages (Peru, Colombia, Chile). Castillo concludes via providing a few options on U.S. curricular practice.
Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor of Romance experiences and of Comparative Literature at Cornell collage and the coauthor (with María-Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba) of Border girls: Writing from los angeles Frontera.
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