scholarly journals Esmeralda Santiago – O poder das memórias na reescrita da história

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anabela Alves
Keyword(s):  
Esmeralda Santiago

Translating in the contact zone

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte
Keyword(s):  
Contact Zone ◽  
Gloria Anzaldua ◽  
Sandra Cisneros ◽  
Ana Castillo ◽  
Cherrie Moraga ◽  
Ana Lydia Vega ◽  
Esmeralda Santiago ◽  
Hybrid Language ◽  
Pat Mora ◽  
The U.S

Abstract The purpose of this article is to analyze the hybrid language used in the U.S. by a generation who think brown and write brown. I am referring to the so-called one-and-a-halfers, a generation that includes writers such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Pat Mora, Ilan Stavans, Ana Lydia Vega, Ana Castillo, Helena Viramontes, Esmeralda Santiago, or Tato Laviera, to name but a few. I aim to analyze how many migrants and refugees use language in a way that destroys consensus. It is in these spaces where the migration movements of the multiple souths talk back in a weird language which the Establishment fears. In these circumstances, translation becomes a tool to raise questions that disturb the universal promises of monolingualism.

Consuming (Post)Colonial Culture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye Caronan
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Jessica Hagedorn ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Esmeralda Santiago ◽  
Travel Guide ◽  
Colonial Culture ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines how travel guides and ethnic novels, despite being mainstream cultural representations, reproduce hegemonic narratives of U.S. exceptionalism by enabling consumers to experience the “authentic” postcolonial other. It analyzes three different sets of texts that all serve to deliver the colonized other to a mainstream U.S. public that is specific to its particular historical context: Our Islands and Their People (1899), the popular travel guide Lonely Planet: Philippines and Lonely Planet: Puerto Rico, and the novels Dogeaters (by Jessica Hagedorn) and América's Dream (by Esmeralda Santiago). The chapter shows how these novels and travelogues reproduce narratives of U.S. exceptionalism and affirm U.S. global power independently, without overt ties to the U.S. government. It argues that the ethnic novel delivers the postcolonial other for consumption by a mainstream U.S. audience while the travel guide recommends how best to consume the postcolonial nation.

Esmeralda Santiago

Neurology Now ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Richard Martin
Keyword(s):  
Esmeralda Santiago

"Boast now, chicken, tomorrow you'll be stew": Pride, Shame, Food, and Hunger in the Memoirs of Esmeralda Santiago

MELUS ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-68
Author(s):  
J. B. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Esmeralda Santiago

scholarly journals CULTURAL HYBRIDITY AND ITS COMPLEXITY IN ESMERALDA SANTIAGO’S ALMOST A WOMAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
IKWAN SETIAWAN
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Esmeralda Santiago ◽  
Puerto Rican Culture ◽  
Cultural Power

Abstrak. Tulisan ini mendiskusikan hibriditas dalam novel Almost A Woman karya Esmeralda Santiago. Novel ini menceritakan permasalahan kultural yang dialami Negi, tokoh utama, sebagai imigran Puerto Rico di New York, di mana ia harus mengapropriasi budaya Amerika agar bisa diterima oleh masyarakat induk. Untuk membahas permasalahan tersebut, kami akan menggunakan teori poskolonial Bhabha. Analisis tekstual digunakan untuk menjelaskan data terpilih dengan cara pandang poskolonial tanpa mengabaikan keterkaitan kontekstualnya dengan dinamika imigrasi dan diaspora. Hasil kajian ini menunjukkan bahwa tokoh utama harus menjalankan strategi kultural berupa mimikri dan hibriditas agar bisa diterima di masyarakat induk dan bisa mendukung impian modernnya. Meskipun menikmati budaya Amerika secara apropriatif, ia masih berusaha untuk tidak melupakan budaya Puerto Rico. Dengan strategi ini subjek diasporik bisa menegosiasikan kepentingannya di tengah-tengah masyarakat induk dan kuasa budaya dominan, tanpa harus meninggalkan sepenuhnya budaya Puerto Rico.   Abstract. This paper discusses hybridity in Esmeralda Santiago’s Almost A Woman. This novel tells about cultural problems experienced by Negi, the main character, as a Puerto Rican immigrant in New York, where she must appropriate American cultures in order to be accepted by the host community. To discuss this problem, we will apply Bhabha's postcolonial theory. Textual analysis is used to explain selected data from a postcolonial perspective without ignoring its contextual relationship with the dynamics of immigration and diaspora. The results of this study show that the main character must carry out a cultural strategy in the form of mimicry and hybridity in order to be accepted in the parent community and be able to support his modern dreams. Despite enjoying appropriately American culture, she still tries not to forget Puerto Rican cultures. With this strategy the diasporic subject can negotiate its interests in the midst of the host society and the dominant cultural power, without having to completely abandon Puerto Rican culture.

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