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008			970714s1997 tnu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 97021192
020			_a0826513026 (alk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)37392799
035			_a(OCoLC)ocm37392799
035			_a(NNC)2072168
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050	0	0	_aPS153.C27 _bL85 1997
082	0	0	_a810.9/868729 _221
100	1		_aLuis, William.
245	1	0	_aDance between two cultures : _bLatino Caribbean literature written in the United States / _cWilliam Luis.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNashville : _bVanderbilt University Press, _c1997.
300			_axxii, 352 p. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 315-335) and index.
505	0	0	_g1. _tSetting New Roots: Latino Caribbean Literature in the United States -- _g2. _tPuerto Rican American Poetry: Street Rhythms and Voices of the People -- _g3. _tPuerto Ricans in New York: Memoirs of Bernardo Vega and Piri Thomas's Down These Mean Streets -- _g4. _tCuban American Poetry: The Cuban American Divide -- _g5. _tMaster Codes of Cuban American Culture: Oscar Hijuelos's The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban -- _g6. _tDominican American Poetry: Culture in the Middest -- _g7. _tA Search for Identity: in Julia Alvarez's How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents -- _g8. _tPostmeditation on Latino, Race, and Identity.
520			_aIn Dance Between Two Cultures, William Luis analyzes the most salient and representative narrative and poetic works of the newest literary movement to emerge in Spanish American and U.S. literatures. The book is divided into three sections, focused on representative Puerto Rican American, Cuban American, and Dominican American authors.
520	8		_aLuis traces the writers' origins and influences from the nineteenth century to the present, focusing especially on the contemporary works of Oscar Hijuelos, Julia Alvarez, Cristina Garcia, and Piri Thomas, among others. While engaging in close readings of the texts, Luis places them in a broader social, historical, political, and racial perspective to expose the tension between text and context.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xCaribbean American authors _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aCaribbean Americans _xIntellectual life.
650		0	_aEthnic groups in literature.
650		0	_aMinorities in literature.
650		0	_aEthnicity in literature.
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