Selena Didn't Know Spanish Either (eBook)

Poems

Marisa Tirado (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
46 Seiten
Texas Review Press (Verlag)
978-1-68003-266-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Selena Didnt Know Spanish Either is a debut poetry collection which seeks Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla as a means of reconnecting to the speaker's cultural identity. As Spanish language and culture becomes more accessible to non-Latinx populations, the speaker grapples with her own complex story of assimilation. Modern marginalization, appropriation, tokenizing, and fetishizing are examined in this multi-generational memoir tracking a Latinx family's journey to assimilation. This dynamic collection is far-reaching, exploring BIPOC experiences in predominantly white cultures.from ';Young Memoir'diasporais silent. is spiritual. It is being robbed of memoir while you sleep in a suburb. it is nonconsensually sensualit is a question. when it comes for you, what will you recover? what will you do to reclaim all that was forced lost?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.5.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-68003-266-6 / 1680032666
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-266-6 / 9781680032666