Culture and the city : Pedro Henríquez Ureña's New York city
Pedro Henríquez Ureña’s memoir, written in 1909 while in México (but published in its entirety in 1989) may well be claimed as one of the first written accounts by a Dominican intellectual in the United States. In this paper I analyze the cultural implications of what it meant to be Dominican at the...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
| Repositorio: | e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/11126 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/11126 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Memoir Migrations Race Early Dominican presence in the U.S. New York city Politics Identity Exile Culture Literature Intellectuals Memoria Migración Raza Presencia dominicana temprana en los Estados Unidos Nueva York Política Identidad Exilio Cultura Literatura Intelectuales |
| Resumo: | Pedro Henríquez Ureña’s memoir, written in 1909 while in México (but published in its entirety in 1989) may well be claimed as one of the first written accounts by a Dominican intellectual in the United States. In this paper I analyze the cultural implications of what it meant to be Dominican at the beginning of the 20th century for a non-white elite intellectual such as Henríquez Ureña in New York City. Although I view Henríquez Ureña’s memoir as a depiction of travel experiences of modernity, I am also interpreting his memoir as a historically prefiguring attempt at recapturing the Dominican nation he had gradually displaced himself from (for different reasons). I argue that Henríquez Ureña’s memoir is itself the literal site of exposure of a life that had been constantly marked by dislocations and relocations. |
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