Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States - Couverture souple

Tobar, Héctor

 
9781594481765: Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1594481768 ISBN 13 : 9781594481765
Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2006

Synopsis

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the smash hit Deep Down Dark, a definitive tour of the Spanish-speaking United States—a parallel nation, 35 million strong, that is changing the very notion of what it means to be an American in unprecedented and unexpected ways.

Tobar begins on familiar terrain, in his native Los Angeles, with his family's story, along with that of two brothers of Mexican origin with very different interpretations of Americanismo, or American identity as seen through a Latin American lens—one headed for U.S. citizenship and the other for the wrong side of the law and the south side of the border. But this is just a jumping-off point. Soon we are in Dalton, Georgia, the most Spanish-speaking town in the Deep South, and in Rupert, Idaho, where the most popular radio DJ is known as "El Chupacabras." By the end of the book, we have traveled from the geographical extremes into the heartland, exploring the familiar complexities of Cuban Miami and the brand-new ones of a busy Omaha INS station.

Sophisticated, provocative, and deeply human, Translation Nation uncovers the ways that Hispanic Americans are forging new identities, redefining the experience of the American immigrant, and reinventing the American community. It is a book that rises, brilliantly, to meet one of the most profound shifts in American identity.

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À propos de l?auteur

Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a novelist. He is the author of Deep Down Dark a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and National Book Critics Circle Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, along with The Barbarian Nurseries, and The Tattooed Soldier. The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and three children.

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Éditeur
Penguin Publishing Group
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1594481768
ISBN 13 
9781594481765
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
368
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Personne responsable
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9781573223058: Translation Nation: Defining A New American Identity In The Spanish-Speaking United States

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1573223050 ISBN 13 :  9781573223058
Editeur : Riverhead Books, 2005
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