Reflections on a Puerto Rican Life: Benjy Lopez: A Picaresque Tale of Emigration and Return - Tapa blanda

Levine, Barry B.

 
9781558764842: Reflections on a Puerto Rican Life: Benjy Lopez: A Picaresque Tale of Emigration and Return
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ISBN 10: 1558764844 ISBN 13: 9781558764842
Editorial: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2010

Sinopsis

Hailed as a “masterpiece” in Newsweek magazine by Yale art historian Robert Ferris Thompson, the life history of Benjy Lopez is now available in an expanded edition which includes his return to and life in Puerto Rico as a successful businessman. This engaging and graceful account is a pioneering vision exposing the half-truth that the typical experience of the ordinary Puerto Rican, particularly of the Puerto Rican transposed to New York City, is exclusively defined by privation, fear, prejudice, and culture shock. In this work, Barry B. Levine successfully combats the myth of the victimized immigrant, proposing a picaresque sociology that acknowledges an actor’s agency even under the most difficult circumstances. “This book is a classic … one hell of an insight into the sharpening of mind and spirit that results from constantly improvising under pressure in a multicultural world. Levine has pulled off a multicultural masterpiece. … Some of Benjy’s adventures run parallel to the blends of the world of New York Latino popular dance music.” ― Robert Farris Thompson, author of Tango: The Art History of Love in the preface to this edition

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Acerca del autor

Barry B. Levine, University in Miami, was for twenty years the editor of Caribbean Review, and authored several books including The Caribbean Exodus, and The New Cuban Presence in the Caribbean.

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Editorial
Markus Wiener Publishers
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1558764844
ISBN 13 
9781558764842
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Número de páginas
220
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9780465006533: Benjy Lopez: A Picaresque Tale

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ISBN 10:  0465006531 ISBN 13:  9780465006533
Editorial: Routledge, 1987
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