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“Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan.”

Book:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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This novel is a rich tapestry of cultural and historical elements, weaving together the story of Oscar Wao, a young man living in New Jersey, with the epic history of his family and the Dominican Republic. more

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“When I speak of Spanglish I'make talking about a fertile terrain for negotiating a new identity. I'make feeling excited, as Gloria Anzldua did in her book Borderlands/LA Frontera,about "participating in the creation of another culture/in a state of perpetual transition/with a tolerance for ambiguity.”

Spanglish

Book:Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

Source: Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

“Uh, puedo hablar con Andrew Nelson, por favor?" I asked, feeling like an idiot. "Quien?" "El americano," I explained. "Muy grande americano." In trying to describe my father, I sounded like I was ordering coffee. But it worked.”

Humor Funny Coffee Spanish Spanglish

Book:In the Bag

Source: In the Bag

“How could I be sure of these teeangers' national origin? Was I using names of origin to give them a place instead, when it was clear that they were moving toward a new language?”

Spanglish

Author:Julio Ortega

“The academic establishment. . . . argue over the diminution of Spanish because of the introduction of new Spanish words that are literally translations of England glish--parquear, the park of "park," tales the plancelebratory of the more elegant estacionar which could be literally translated as "stationing.”

Spanglish

Book:Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

Source: Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

“At the root of Spanglish is a very universal state of being. It is a dis placement from one place, home, to another place, home, in which feels at home in both places, Yet at home in neither place. It is a kind of banging-one's-head-against-the-wall state, and the only choice you have left is to embrace the transitory (read transnatiknal) state of in-between.”

Spanglish

Book:Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

Source: Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

“In Living in Spanglish I posit the coming of existence of this forwars-looking race that obliterates all races, stripping away Vasaconelos's petty resentment of Anglo culture and patronizing Euro-centrist, and acknowledge a cultural-economic inevitability that is hemispheric in nature. Note: Jose Vasaconelos wrote 1925 essay "La Raza cosmica" [The Cosmic Race] asserting, "Por mi raza hablara mi espiritu [The Spirit will speak through my race.”

Spanglish

Book:Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

Source: Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

“Просто есть такие люди, они... они чересчур много думают о том свете и потому никак не научатся жить на этом. (Мисс Моди Эткинсон - Глазастику Финч)”

People Religion

Book:To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“To paraphrase a Latino saying (which is possibly ultimately from the Arabic traditiom), MI rasa is supposed raza." So Living in Spanglish is not a racial Istanbul text.”

Spanglish

Book:Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

Source: Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

“Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles and protect them. This fog abets.”

Queer Lit Spanglish Social Critique Femminism

Book:Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Source: Creep: Accusations and Confessions

“Sometimes bad self-esteem is just good common sense.”

Spanglish

Author:Cloris Leachman

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