{"id":66,"date":"2007-07-24T16:18:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T22:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/2007\/07\/24\/new-stuff-tuesday-july-24\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T09:48:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T15:48:17","slug":"new-stuff-tuesday-july-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/66","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff Tuesday &#8211; July 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/killspan.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"158\" alt=\"Literary Essays on Ambivalent US Latino\/a Identity\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Killing Spanish:<\/strong><br \/>\nLiterary Essays on Ambivalent US Latino\/a Identity<br \/>\nby Lyn Di Iorio Sand\u00edn<br \/>\nPS153 .H56 S36 2004<br \/>\n<strong>New Book Island<\/strong>, 2nd floor<\/p>\n<p>Browsing the New Book Island, this book instantly grabbed my attention, as I studied Spanish language and literature for seven years. Sand\u00edn, a professor at the City College at the City University of New York, delves in the question of the US Latino\/a identity through the examination of several contemporary authors, such as Edward Rivera, Cristina Garc\u00eda and others. She conjectures that the protagonists struggle between their present assimilation to American culture and their past origins. The ties to the homeland take shape in the other characters, with the protagonist embodying the American way of life. The novels in question handle the situation by killing the &#8220;Spanish&#8221; counterpart, which sheds light on the title. It&#8217;s definitely a scholarly work, but an interesting subject nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killing Spanish: Literary Essays on Ambivalent US Latino\/a Identity by Lyn Di Iorio Sand\u00edn PS153 .H56 S36 2004 New Book Island, 2nd floor Browsing the New Book Island, this book instantly grabbed my attention, as I studied Spanish language and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/66\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[178,293,185,273],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-stuff-tuesdays","tag-books","tag-latino-studies","tag-new-stuff","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}