Hitting home

McCarthy, Abigail

United States. Puerto Ricans are the lowest on the economic the panelists had to refrain from using neologisms--and for that, scale within the Hispanic minority as a whole, even below the were often...

...Award for Chromos, have chosen to switch to English...
...Many are less the product of the interracial mixture between the Spanish of my colleagues, like Oscar Hijuelos, the author of the 1990 conquistadores and the native Indians, and therefore have a more Pulitzer Prize winner The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Europeanized Spanish than that of, say, Mexicans, who have or Felipe Alfau, who was nominated for the 1990 National Book integrated pre-Columbian terms and names (Aztec, Mayan, etc...
...He began by educating the priests in his diocese to the extent HITTING HOME of the problem, encouraging them to preach CAN THE CHURCH HELP...
...on the sinfulness of alcoholism, abuse, and incest, and offering parish-based support groups...
...Some months ago I attended a conference at the University Not yet, at least...
...As a result of educated by the church out of their She took the church in America to task for confidential surveys he initiated, he dis- predilection for violence...
...It was a revealing symptom: It showed Central Americans, who have sought asylum during the eighties how Spanish-speaking media workers, although conscious of in the Southern United States and have just begun to adapt lin- their social and educational role, don't speak an unaffected lan- guistically...
...they don't say "voy of Hispanic literature whose authors must be translated into a estacionar el auotmovir' but "voy a parkear el automovil...
...We debated the situation of Spanish the same language of Columbus--who by the way, didn't know in this country, and some showed signs of distress after realizing how to write and spoke a terrible Spanish...
...And one of those futures, I think, is advertising agents, journalists, writers, educators, editors, and being shaped right now around us...
...Interestingly, Latin American Short Stories (Holmes and Meier...
...When, if ever, have you heard port...
...The truth is that if a from the U.S...
...aplicar a la universidad" instead of "solicitar entrada a la But others, although admirers of Joseph Conrad and Vladimir universidad...
...Argentinians, for instance, of being a Hispanic author and writing fiction in the U.S...
...In the article, Curran wrote what might have happened if you had...
...OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy with alcoholic spouses and their abuse...
...Does the Catholic writer whose column is a homily inveighing against wife or child Catholic male claim the right to abuse syndicated nationwide...
...on cable channels are beginning to use the same writer wanted to effectively reproduce the street language spoken malapropisms, transforming the Spanish laguage in their own in Los Angeles or New York City, the choice would be neither individual countries...
...There were linguists invited as well as of its intriguing futures...
...His priests reported that men were telling them to lay off, that these were / I nonreligious topics, and that if they con- n August, diocesan papers ran a is right about this failure...
...In general, Hispanics in thing, their audience is wider and their endeavors can be remu- Chicago or Los Angeles, or New Jersey, don't say "mercado" nerated more handsomely...
...The vocabulary used by these four groups depends on the Being a novelist and a scholar, I talked about the difficult art the particular historical circumstance...
...If it is possible its failure to use its teaching power to covered to his surprise that two of the great- it means that the church will be at odds preach the sinfulness of this violence...
...She est needs listed by respondents were help with the prevailing American culture...
...of Southern California...
...Apparently, in at least of Women...
...it is a glaring tinued, they would withdraw financial sup- column by Dolores Curran, a omission...
...All the participants had different origins Ilan Stavans, a Mexican novelist and critic, is the editor of (Peruvians, Guatemalans, Spanish-speaking gringos, Mexicans, the forthcoming Tropical Synagogues: An Anthology of Jewish- Uruguayans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Iberians, etc...
...The result might be an affront independent scholars, all professionals from the various fields to Quevedo and Borges, a bastardized yet authentic version of that shape the language daily...
...for one into their day-to-day communication...
...women and children without interference paper it was entitled "Real Issues Curran cited one chilling example of from his church...
...A one of our dioceses, he does...
...of publishing their craft in the amorphous jargon called Spanglish...
...They are part of the "sickness" they are looking to cure...
...Spanish to be read in Barcelona, Mexico City, or Buenos Aires...
...Hence, they belong to that new branch anymore for supermarket, but "marketa...
...ILAN STAVANS how "sick" it really is...
...Curiously, because of the money and attention Nabokov, cannot write fiction---only criticism in anything but placed on Hispanic media in this country, people in Caracas, their mother tongue, although they recognize that the mere term, Venezuela, or Santiago, Chile, who watch Hispanic television "mother tongue," is indeed problematic...
...566: Commonweal...
...In our local beating...
...What does this mean...
...Thus, the changes here have a strong echo Spanish nor English, and no trade publisher would take the risk all over the world...
...Puerto Ricans are the lowest on the economic the panelists had to refrain from using neologisms--and for that, scale within the Hispanic minority as a whole, even below the were often ridiculed...
...guage...
...of the widespread and increasing violence priest of her acquaintance was a diocesan Nevertheless, Curran evidently believes against women and of the equally family-life director who offered workshops that these hostile males can and should be widespread abuse and neglect of children...
...He changed his emphasis...
...The topic was "Spanish and the Media The story of Spanish is the story of its various pasts but also in the United States...
...in family life and marriage...

Vol. 118 • October 1991 • No. 17


 
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