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Mi lenguaje roto : memorias
Published 2022 by Vintage Español, Miami, FL
ISBN 9780593314869
Bib Id 1161662
Copyright 2021
Edition Primera edición, Abril de 2022.
Description 389 pages ; 20 cm
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cam a22 Ii 4500
ISBN
9780593314869 (paperback) $16.95
0593314867
Language
spa
Call #
S B Hudes
Uniform Title
My broken language. English
Title
Mi lenguaje roto : memorias
Edition
Primera edición, Abril de 2022.
Publication Information
2022 by Vintage Español, Miami, FL :
Copyright Date
©2021
Description
389 pages ; 20 cm
Note
Translation of: My broken language.
Contents
Yo soy la brecha entre el inglés y el español -- Todo el lenguaje de mis mujeres Pérez y, sin embargo, tanto silencio... -- ¿Cómo es qui qui? -- Romper, romper, romper mi idioma materno.
Summary
Quiara Alegría Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced their defiance in a tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed by her mother and aunts and cousins, but haunted by the unspoken, untold stories of the barrio--even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea of language around her, written and spoken, English and Spanish, bodies and books, Western art and sacred altars. Her family became her private pantheon, a gathering circle of powerful orisha-like women with tragic real-world wounds, and she vowed to tell their stories--but first she'd have to get off the stairs and join the dance. She'd have to find her language. Weaving together Hudes's love of music with the songs of her family, the lessons of North Philly with those of Yale, this is a multimythic dive into home, memory, and belonging--narrated by an obsessed girl who fought to become an artist so she could capture the world she loved in all its wild and delicate beauty.
Language Note
En español = In Spanish.
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