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Manhattan Tropics = Tropico En Manhattan

Author: Cotto-Thorner, Guillermo

Follett Number: 1317DTX
Audience: Adult
Publisher: Arte Publico Press, 2019
Format: xxxiv, 403 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-55885-881-7
ISBN-10: 1-55885-881-4
LCCN: 2019-011734
Dewey: 863
Classifications: Fiction

Subjects:
Bilingual Books English-Spanish
Immigrants New York (N.Y.) Fiction
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Fiction
Puerto Ricans Fiction
Text in English and Spanish.;Works issued back-to-back.;"Recovering the US Hispanic literary heritage"--Front cover.;"Recuperacion de la herencia literaria Hispana en los EEUU"--Back cover. "Juan Marcos Villalobos, a freshly arrived migrant to New York City . . . is eager to continue his studies in the United States and rents a room from family friends living in El Barrio, or Spanish Harlem. Soon, he has a job wrapping packages at a department store that pays as much as he made teaching high school at home. As he interacts with the Puerto Rican community in New York, he witnesses the problems his compatriots encounter, including discrimination, inadequate housing, jobs and wages. Despite these problems, friendships and romances bloom and rivalries surface, leading to betrayal and even attempted murder"--Provided by publisher.

From the publisher:
"Walking underground" for the first time in his life, Juan Marcos Villalobos, a freshly arrived migrant to New York City, offers his seat to a woman standing on the subway. Though his English isn't up to her rude reply, he quickly realizes that good manners in Nueva York are quite different than in Puerto Rico!Juan Marcos is eager to continue his studies in the United States and rents a room from family friends living in El Barrio, or Spanish Harlem. Soon, he has a job wrapping packages at a department store that pays as much as he made teaching high school at home. As he interacts with the Puerto Rican community in New York, he witnesses the problems his compatriots encounter, including discrimination, inadequate housing, jobs and wages. Despite these problems, friendships and romances bloom and rivalries surface, leading to betrayal and even attempted murder!Originally published in 1951 as Tropico en Manhattan, it was the first novel to focus on the postwar influx of Puerto Ricans to New York. Cotto-Thorner's use of code-switching, or "Spanglish," reflects the characters' bicultural reality and makes the novel a forerunner of Nuyorican writing and contemporary Latino literature. This new bilingual edition contains a first-ever English translation by J. Bret Maney that artfully captures the style and spirit of the original Spanish. The novel's exploration of class, race and gender-while demonstrating the community's resilience and cultural pride-ensures its relevance today.

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