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Article: Puerto Rican Voices in English.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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Carmen Dolores Hernandez. Westport, Ct. Praeger/Greenwood. 1997. x + 251 pages, ill. $59.95 ($22.95 paper). ISBN 0-275-95809-4 (95810-8 paper).
Is culture indissolubly linked to language? Does Latino literature cease to be Latino when rendered in English? These ever-present questions pervade Carmen Dolores Hernandez's vibrant collection of interviews with fourteen Puerto Rican authors - most of them born or raised in New York who have chosen to write in English.
The phenomenon of biculturalism, entailing two world views as well as vulnerability to two sets of prejudices, is here approached from fourteen points of view, all of which have constants (the history, ...