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Article: Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2004
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Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature. By ROBERTO IGNACIO DIAZ. Lewisburgh: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 248 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5489-9.
Cultural identity depends only partly on location and language, but when we study a writer those two factors become particularly important. Roberto Ignacio Diaz starts from the premiss that there is a location known as Spanish America, and argues that although the great majority of its literature is written in Spanish, works written in other languages should not be excluded. Although the premiss poses some problems, the project stimulates a ...