Bilingual Review articles from January 2004

Bilingual Review archives from January 2004

Rewriting American Democracy: Language and Cultural (Dis)locations in Esmeralda Santiago and Julia Alvarez
January 1, 2004... Upon immigrating with her mother and siblings to the United States, the eight-year-old Puerto Rican American protagonist, Negi, in Esmeralda Santiago's memoir Almost a Woman (1998) lacks the words and concepts to describe her new identity amid a...

Boricuas En Hawai: Identidad Y Expresion
January 1, 2004... A pesar de la importancia historica de la emigracion de los puertorriquenos a Hawai su senalamiento habia permanecido en el anonimato por muchos anos hasta fines de la decada de los anos setenta cuando aparecio documentada brevemente en tres...

The Caballero Revisited: Postmodernity in the Cisco Kid, the Mask of Zorro, and Shrek II
January 1, 2004... Although by the 1990s the Robin Hood heroes embodied by the Cisco Kid and Zorro had been absent from cinema screens in North America for a number of years, they had not disappeared from the popular imagination. Luis Valdez, who was to direct The...

Mayra Montero: Historiografia, Memoria Y Subjetividad En El Capitan De Los Dormidos
January 1, 2004... En una entrevista con el escritor cubano Jose Manuel Prieto en el invierno del 2000, Mayra Montero reconvino la propuesta de que su escritura esta en dialogo con la literatura puertorriquena en lo que concierne a caracteristicas tematicas o...

Inscrito En la Calle: La Estetica Naturalista De Steve Lopez En Third and Indiana
January 1, 2004... Para Jose Maria Aguirre ABSTRACT Este articulo inserta la novela Third and Indiana, del periodista norteamericano de origen espanol Steve Lopez, dentro de la tradicion del naturalismo decimononico. La discusion se centra alrededor del...

My Mother, My Text: Writing and Remembering in Julia Alvarez's in the Name of Salome
January 1, 2004... In her article titled "Endless Autobiography?" Leigh Gilmore states that some Caribbean women writers "have taken the project of self-representation to be open-ended, susceptible to repetition, extendible, even, perhaps, incapable of completion"...

Some of my best friends.(Short story)
January 1, 2004... "He hit him!" Norberto Rosario sang out in a voice halfway between surprise and glee as he dropped the box he was packing to run and get a closer look. Rosario's shout shook Arthur Leo away from a daydream he was enjoying about his...

The computer programmer.(Short story)
January 1, 2004... An empty nest hung precariously from a tree next to the bar, and Juan was aware that simply nudging the branch that offered itself inches from the balcony's railing would tumble the nest into the blackness below. Juan imagined the chaotic...

Perros En la Noche
January 1, 2004... La fiebre empezo apenas anochecido, cuando el nino no llevaba ni una hora dormido. Su perro habia comenzado a ladrar en el sueno, afligido y temeroso del peligro: algo rondaba en el jardin y ambos tuvieron miedo. --Son los otros, Jazmin; no...

La unica certeza.(Short story)
January 1, 2004... Alguien grito que la migra estaba en el edificio, entonces, como teniamos planeado con mis companeros, a modo de simulacro de incendio, trepe por una cinta hasta la ventana que da a la terraza de la cafeteria de al lado. De alli, salte al...

A Portuguese Valentine.(Poems)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... A PORTUGUESE VALENTINE After 32 years of marriage, Father never saw the inside of a Hallmark or knew that flowers meant something to a woman. Arguments, he said, that's where love grows. He said it's Portuguese to...

I Dropped and Broke the Language.(Poems)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... I DROPPED AND BROKE THE LANGUAGE my father carried so long ago on a cargo ship from the islands to the ports of Boston. He hasn't spoken to me since in his mother's tongue. I want back the same Portuguese...

Letter to an 8th Grader.(Poems)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... LETTER TO AN 8TH GRADER Go fuck yourself. Excuse me For not saying this in person, High school politics has made me bilingual: Frustration--voice without a plug or outlet Political Correctness--Go Fuck...

September.(Poems)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... SEPTEMBER On a gray afternoon You can hear The cracking of leaves That snap in the wind Or the distant cry of a dog That's tied to a clothesline and hungry. Caterpillars will shrivel Into balls ...

The Journey.(Poems)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... THE JOURNEY As I stand before a window And watch the evening's darkness Spill eastward, I remember How we gathered Before the crack of dawn With our hands In our pockets And our eyes half shut ...

The Poor.(Poems)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... THE POOR Today I heard you call My name, hermano And for a brief moment I thought you had returned To the two-room shack That we had grown up in There were no white picket fences Outside to greet...

Sisters.(Poems)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... SISTERS It's dark now and I can hear Mama snoring. The sound is as cold as the night air that hovers over us. "Are you asleep, Belen?" I open my eyes and the evening's darkness begins to slowly give way. I ...

Papa.(Poems)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... PAPA The moment you come And stand in the doorway I turn over on my side Pull the covers high Over my head and curl Up against the wall With my eyes closed And arm hugging the neck Of a...

Professional Announcements
January 1, 2004... American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference will be held April 913, 2007 in Chicago, IL. For information contact: AERA, 1230 17th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036-3078. Tel: (202) 223-9485; fax: (202) 775-1824; Web site: www.aera.net...