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Lädt ... When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) (Original 1994; 2006. Auflage)von Esmeralda Santiago (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. "Con la musica por dentro"...with the music inside...perfectly describes Negi the main protagonist in Esmeralda's Santiago's memoir When I Was Puerto Rican. I read this one with as a buddy read with @idleutopia_reads and some other awesome bookstagrammers and it couldn't have come at a more perfect time. From the moment I started reading this I knew that Negi and I shared the same spirit: the spirit of a fighter, one who questions everything, one who challenges authority and makes her own rules and her own space in an uber masculine world that seeks to break you. No matter what tragedy happened, she just pushed through and it fueled her determination to save herself from her circumstances. My mother used to tell me I had " la musica por dentro" and I never understood what it meant. All I knew was that I was sensitive to people's pain but I was also a rebel who could not be tamed or silenced. There are books that come into your life that give you glimpses of your younger self, your journey, your homeland and more importantly your beloved culture and ancestry. Representation in books is far and in between but this one spoke to me deeply on a visceral level. It transported me to Puerto Rico and places that I loved to visit as little girl. It brought back memories of my grandparents and it also gave me snippets of what my mother's life was like when she first moved to NYC. I gave me some new history about my neighborhood and made me feel more connected to my Puerto Rican roots. It gave me new insight into my own parents' experiences and it provided validation for their own migration stories. This book touched me in so many ways that I can't help but cry and smile at the same time. The little girl in me that was just like Negi has found reconciliation and newfound pride in the pages. Negi's story is one that I will revisit over and over because it reminded me that the undying fire that lives inside of me burns for a reason. I am reminded who I fight for every day. Thank you Esmeralda Santiago for sharing your life with the world. I am forever grateful. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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[The author's] story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her warring parents and seven siblings led a life of uproar, but one full of love and tenderness as well. Growing up, Esmeralda learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of the tree frogs in the mango groves at night, the taste of the delectable sausage called morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But just when Esmeralda seemed to have learned everything, she was taken to New York City, where the rules - and the language - were bewilderingly different. How Esmeralda overcame adversity, won acceptance to New York City's High School of Performing Arts, and then went on to Harvard, where she graduated with highest honors, is a record of a tremendous journey by a truly remarkable woman.-BooksInPrint. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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And there’s certainly a lot to be knocked over by, waves and waves of gender and conflict, waves of expectations and customs and conformity, although again it’s not like she’s Marilyn Frye or even Simone de Beauvoir, angry or sarcastic or whatever, (not that that has to necessarily be always bad). It’s hard to review though. At one point I was going to write about her parents’ marriage, and the way people punish each other, the way I get you to treat me even more poorly to punish you for treating me a way I don’t like…. But it’s odd because she’s a woman of color. Gender roles are not timeless or borderless, but nevertheless gender lends itself to a certain universalism because woman and man are not ethnic terms; even the animals some of us eat have gender. But for myself and people like me, when we imagine a universal or quasi-universal gendered scenario, we basically imagine white people, you know. So I don’t know. Of course, sometimes things ARE less different than we might hastily assume; baby boomer Puerto Ricans were told to be ‘well behaved’ by their elders, and rebelled against being repressed or whatever; they weren’t a universally sexually loose or non-uptight Hispanic heritage people like we might so easily assume. But I don’t know. You read most Anglo psychology books, for example, and the people tend to have Anglo names and are basically assumed to be white, and in that larger context we try to wrestle with gender and say what The Girl and The Guy or This Guy and That Girl want, behave, say, do, etc, and it’s like, I don’t know. Better a functional Anglo than a psycho one; I don’t want to press the point too far, but how do you tackle gender without the invisible context of Anglo-ness?
I really don’t know what to say about it, even after having read someone feel their own way through the forest, or across the sea, I guess, lol.