The fox skin coat rosario ferre biography
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In our contemporary society – which is highly homogenized by the global marketplace – intellectual and artistic heresy is like oxygen. Globalized culture sucks that oxygen from our mental landscape. The global marketplace pretends that it offers us a diversity of products but in fact sells us the powerful substitute of the holy ONE. Today, we get one “subversive” philosopher, one“subversive” artist, and onesubversive “writer”: the global market can’t bare more than one! In other words, we get one Coca-Cola, but we believe that by consuming it we consume the whole world. Celebs are our modern prophets, whether they sell the photos of their impressive posteriors, like Kim Kardashian, or the seductive theories, like Slavoj Žižek, or millions of their books, like Haruki Murakami. I don’t have anything against Kim Kardashian or, God forbid, against the great Slavoj Žižek, or m
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The Youngest Doll
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Puerto Rico is not generally a stop on my literature travels, and it is only through my decision to read my way through the “10 Essential Spanish-Language Books” as highlighted in Publisher’s Weekly that I came across this collection of short stories from Rosario Ferré, “The Youngest Doll”. My stay, for Spanish Literature Month, in the Central American regions has been prolonged even further. And given we are nearly at the end of July I am going to read and review a number of translated Spanish language works without actually getting to Spain itself.
As pointed out in the Foreword, Puerto Rico is “the only country in the world which is still attached to the United States without being fully integrated as a state nor fully autonomous.” This Americanization has had a massive impact on Puerto Rican identity, and this collection creatively explores this “identity” through a number of techniques. More on the techniques used later.
But this collection is not simply an exercise in exploring the cultural identity of a nation, these stories also highlight the patriarchy prevalent in the Puerto Rican society, a strong feminist work one that I would thoroughly recommend for Women In TranslationMonth next month.
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