Bilingual Review articles from September 1 2003

Bilingual Review archives from September 1 2003

Bilingual Verb Constructions in Southwestern Spanish
September 1, 2003... ABSTRACT The Spanish of the southwestern United States employs a unique bilingual verb paradigm containing the auxiliary hacer (do) with an English bare infinitive. The discourse motivators for this construction follow what has been...

Gathering Voices: Storytelling and Collective Identity in Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
September 1, 2003... Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood (1990) is a personal narrative about growing up in two worlds, each with its own language, customs, and contrasting definitions of womanhood. The author...

Julia De Burgos as a Cultural Icon in Luz Maria Umpierre's the Margarita Poems
September 1, 2003... Luz Maria Umpierre explores the intersections of her multiple identities as a Latina living in the United States, a poet, a lesbian, a feminist, and a native Puerto Rican in The Margarita Poems (1987), the poet's "coming out" work and a...

"Inhabited by Un Santo": The Antojo and Yolanda's Search for the "Missing" Self in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
September 1, 2003... "Memory, for immigrants, is always a memory of loss." --Arjun Appadurai, "Archive and Aspiration" Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents reveals in its very title the crucial role that loss plays in a novel that can...

The kite.(Short story)
September 1, 2003... The year before the world was supposed to end my father died. Of course, the millennium came and went. Life goes on, you know. My mom would say that he had died long before, on that rainy day he walked out on us. It sounds weird to hear...

Incident at Las Palmas.(Short story)
September 1, 2003... la quebradita I do the tongues and tripe in offal now. They put me off to one side near the freezers. There's a table full of people down the way from me that cut the oxtails and sift through boxes of face meat and fish out any pieces...

Strike out!(Short story)
September 1, 2003... I decided to return without notifying her. Took the bus and arrived in Los Angeles. I found my way to her apartment and let myself in with my own key before noon. The apartment was small but very neat, clean, cozy--in a word, her. I thought...

Immigration Blues, 1980.(Poem)
September 1, 2003... IMMIGRATION BLUES, 1980 Buried in a cloud of cigarette smoke, black as crow, I walk streets long and dark, cracked, the open carcass of a dead cat. Every corner, a tattered palm tree pokes the moon. Steam...

Latest News.(Poem)
September 1, 2003... LATEST NEWS At work no one has seen him or his green taxi. Newspapers read "Juan Marquez Missing: Any sighting, please contact family." A few months ago, police led a trail to empty graves; some broken bones, the...

Cuban American Manifesto.(Poem)
September 1, 2003... CUBAN AMERICAN MANIFESTO para Guillermo Portabales I want to write a Cubaniche poem full of rhumba, conga y cha-cha-cha con azucar sazon cafe tabaco y salsa a Cuban poem for those over there a Cuban American...

Nacida en otro mundo.(Poem)
September 1, 2003... NACIDA EN OTRO MUNDO Estos no son los arboles que yo conocia: murmuran con el viento en lengua extrana. Esta arcilla no se me pega a los pies. La piel de esta arena no le...

Born in Another World.(Poem)
September 1, 2003... BORN IN ANOTHER WORLD These are not the trees I once knew: they gossip with the wind in a foreign tongue. This clay does not cling to my feet. The skin of this sand does not...

Extranjera.(Poem)
September 1, 2003... EXTRANJERA es una muela con caries que duele en la raiz cutis que no aprende a ser rosado huesos que no pueden anadirles ni un cubo a los tuetanos brazos que se agarran sin hojas ...

Foreigner.(Poem)
September 1, 2003... FOREIGNER is a hollow tooth that aches at the root skin that does not learn pink bones that cannot add one cubit to their marrow arms that cling leafless to the sterile trunk ...

Iesous Christos.(Poem)
September 1, 2003... IESOUS CHRISTOS A mi manera yo te siento, y no juzgo pecado saber que fuiste un prodigio iniciado al Gran Secreto, vencedor de lo oculto, madura fruta en tierra del goce mas carnal de nuestro arbol, ...

El Triunfo del Mediocre.(Poem)
September 1, 2003... EL TRIUNFO DEL MEDIOCRE El triunfo del mediocre suele ser mayor y mas veloz que el del que piensa. El mediocre es quien cambia las comas, el que fascina a un pueblo el que dicta el valor de mi garganta, ...

Sucede que me acuerdo.(Poem)
September 1, 2003... SUCEDE QUE ME ACUERDO Sucede que me acuerdo, que inconsciente me viene a la cabeza lo del hombre que andaba, pot hospitales y zapaterias, lo de sus unas y su aburrimiento. Neruda fue un gran ciego...

Poem for the Addict and the Resurrection of Arms.(Poem)
September 1, 2003... POEM FOR THE ADDICT AND THE RESURRECTION OF ARMS Enrique Raya spent a decade in the cavity of his bedroom for the injection in his tentacle arm. One night after the needle numbed Enrique to sleep his...

The Exile Harbors the Truth of Thievery in the Soles of His Feet.(Poem)
September 1, 2003... THE EXILE HARBORS THE TRUTH OF THIEVERY IN THE SOLES OF HIS FEET Sam's Mini-Mart, Fresno, CA after Martin Espada Inside the church of his praying mind inside his shirt, sweat beading in tiny civilizations inside his...

The Spanish Grandmother.(Poem)
September 1, 2003... THE SPANISH GRANDMOTHER It would bother my grandmother Whenever she was mistaken for A Puerto Rican or a Cuban. She was from Spain. After all, It was her ancestors Who had taught These Indians, ...

La Coruna, Galicia.(Poem)
September 1, 2003... LA CORUNA, GALICIA For the Arreaga-Rodas family The ruptured tanker, my youngest son calls the dead boat, with its rusted hull and deck the color of an old blood stain, rumbles and vibrates with the...

Creative literature and biography.(Materials Received)
September 1, 2003... Chantel Acevedo, Love and Ghost Letters. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005. 312 pp., hardcover, $23.95. Novel. Jose Asuncion Silva, After-Dinner Conversations: The Diary of a Decadent. Translated with an introduction and notes by Kelly...

Essay and creative nonfiction.(Materials Received)
September 1, 2003... Noe Jitrik, The Noe Jitrik Reader: Selected Essays on Latin American Literature. Edited by Daniel Balderston and translated by Susan Benner. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2005. 310 pp., paperback, $23.95; hardcover, $84.95. Lisa Magana,...

Scholarship and research.(Materials Received)
September 1, 2003... E.N. Anderson, Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 2005. 264 pp., hardcover, $55.00. Valerie Pellegrino Aveni, Study Abroad and Second Language Use: Constructing the Self. New York: Cambridge...