Tracing Dominican Identity The Writings of Pedro Henrï¿½quez Ureï¿½a

Name: Tracing Dominican Identity The Writings of Pedro Henrï¿½quez Ureï¿½a
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ISBN: 9780230109377

ISBN-10: 0230109373

ISBN-13: 9780230109377

Edition: 2011

Authors: Juan R. Valdez

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How did all things African disappear from Santo Domingo? How did a white Hispanic identity instead come to dominate the country's collective consciousness? Why did Dominican intellectuals, in trying to create a free and modern society and shield their country from North American imperialism, reengage Spanish neocolonialism? In an effort to explore these questions, the author analyzes and discusses the socio-historical meanings and implications of Pedro Henriquez Urena's (1884-1946) writings on language. This important twentieth century Latin American intellectual is an unavoidable reference in Hispanic Linguistics and Cultural Studies and his texts make us confront the ideological…

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List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 1/26/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 227
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.80" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Pedro Henrï¿½quez Ureï¿½a: The Making of a Latinamericanist



Linguistic Ideologies and the History of Linguistic Ideas



Nationalism and Hispanoamericanism in the Dominican Republic and Latin America



Pedro Henrï¿½quez Ureï¿½a in Hispanic Linguistics



Pedro Henrï¿½quez Ureï¿½a and the Whitening of Dominican Identity


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index