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When I Was Puerto Rican
Author | : Esmeralda Santiago |
Publsiher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2006-02-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780786736867 |
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Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights as well as poverty. Growing up, she learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs in the mango groves at night, the taste of the delectable sausage called morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. As she enters school we see the clash, both hilarious and fierce, of Puerto Rican and Yankee culture. When her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually take on a new identity. In this first volume of her much-praised, bestselling trilogy, Santiago brilliantly recreates the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years and her tremendous journey from the barrio to Brooklyn, from translating for her mother at the welfare office to high honors at Harvard.
When I Was Puerto Rican
Author | : Esmeralda Santiago |
Publsiher | : Everbind |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0784807159 |
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Autobiography of a young girl who leaves Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success.
When I Was Puerto Rican
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1627651748 |
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Cuando era puertorrique a
Author | : Esmeralda Santiago |
Publsiher | : VINTAGE ESPAÑOL |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2014-04-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780804153409 |
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La historia de Esmeralda Santiago comienza en la parte rural de Puerto Rico, donde sus padres y siete hermanos, en continuas luchas los unos con los otros, vivían una vida alborotada pero llena de amor y ternura. De niña, Esmeralda aprendió a apreciar cómo se come una guayaba, a distinguir la canción del coquí, a identificar los ingredientes en las morcillas y a ayudar a que el alma de un bebé muerto subiera al Cielo. Pero precisamente cuando Esmeralda parecía haberlo aprendido todo sobre su cultura, la llevaron a Nueva York, donde las reglas y el idioma eran no sólo diferentes, sino también desconcertantes. Cómo Esmeralda superó la adversidad, se ganó entrada a la Performing Arts High School y después continuó a Harvard, de donde se graduó con altos honores, es el relato de la tremenda trayectoria de una mujer verdaderamente extraordinaria.
Am rica s Dream
Author | : Esmeralda Santiago |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780061846946 |
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América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don't look her In the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her; her married boyfriend, Correa, beats her; and their fourteen-year-old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere but with América. So when América is offered the chance to work as alive-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester County, New York, she takes it as a sign that a door to escape has been opened. Yet even as América revels in the comparative luxury of her new life, daring to care about a man other than Correa, she is faced with dramatic proof that no matter what she does, she can't get away from her past.
When I Was Puerto Rican
Author | : Santiago Esmeralda |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1632451131 |
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"Riveting."--Booklist, starred review
Hybridity in Esmeralda Santiago s When I was Puerto Rican
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 23 |
Release | : 2022-08-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783346706256 |
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Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Kassel, language: English, abstract: This research is going to deal with the factors that have influenced Santiago’s hybrid transformation. In order to facilitate this, the main focus of this paper will be put on her progression concerning national identity, cultural identity and gender identity. Our goal is to find out to what extent Santiago’s hybrid transformation becomes visible when further analysing her identity development.
Almost a Woman
Author | : Esmeralda Santiago |
Publsiher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2012-06-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780306821110 |
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Following the enchanting story recounted in When I Was Puerto Rican of the author’s emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the prestigious Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, Esmeralda Santiago delivers the tale of her young adulthood, where she continually strives to find a balance between becoming American and staying Puerto Rican. While translating for her mother Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleopatra at New York’s prestigious Performing Arts High School in the afternoons, and dancing salsa all night, she begins to defy her mother’s protective rules, only to find that independence brings new dangers and dilemmas.