My broken language a memoir
"Quiara Alegria Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother's tight South Philly kitchen, "frizzy hair cut short, bangs teased into stiff clouds, sweat glistening in the summer fog, pamper-butt babies weaving between legs." Quiara was aw...
| Main Author: | Hudes, Quiara Alegría (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
One World,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- A multilingual block in West Philly
- Spanish becomes a secret; language of the dead
- English is for atheism; language of woodworking
- A name that is a mask
- An English cousin comes to visit
- Language of the forest
- Latina health vocabulary from the late 80s
- Spanglish cousins on the New Jersey turnpike
- Body language
- Sophomore year English
- Things go unsaid long enough...
- Possession's voice
- Sedo buys me an upright; language of Bach
- Taíno petroglyphs
- Lukumí thrones
- Silence=death
- Unwritten recipes
- Yoruba vocabulary
- A racial slur
- A book is its presence and absence
- Mom's accent
- Dad buys me a typewriter
- She said Norf Philly and one-two-free
- Atonality
- Fania everything and salsa out-of-prints
- The serenity prayer
- Sterling Library
- The Foraker Act (on Boriken's-and the diaspora's-language history)
- Gil-Scott Heron asks me a question
- Writing's a muscle, it gets stronger
- Broken language
- On obscenity
- Cold drink became a play
- Silence=death (déjà vu all over again)
- The book of our genius.