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T1 Spaces and flows in the Puerto Rican barrio: Latero Stories, Bodega Dreams
A1 Benito Sánchez, Jesús
AB Taking Manuel Castells’s idea of globalization in a world of late capitalism as a “space of flows,” where mobility and instability are essential to the workings of the system, the article looks at the role of the barrio and its ethnic dwellers as forces of stability and local resistance. If it is undeniable that many recent political movements of a clearly oppositional stance have gained visibility through the occupation of particularly prominent sites (whether in Zucotti Park, Tahrir Square or la Puerta del Sol, among others), can we also view the barrio as another site of metaphorical occupation, a bulwark against the forces of capitalist infiltration and gentrification? Can we then assume barrio dwellers as largely opposed to the economic dynamics of globalization? The article explores this issue by analyzing two Puerto Rican texts, Tato Laviera’s “Latero Story” and Ernesto Quiñonez’s Bodega Dreams, where the characters occupy diverse and complex positionalities with regards to the promises of a renewed American dream.
SN 1133-309-X
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/22762
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/22762
LA eng
NO Jesús Benito, "SPACES AND FLOWS IN THE PUERTO RICAN BARRIO: LATERO STORIES, BODEGA DREAMS." Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, no 18 (2014) Seville, Spain. ISSN 1133-309-X, pp.13-33
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 26-abr-2024