Ismail Hakkı từ Stare Węgorzynko, Poland

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2019-07-26 14:30

50 Câu Ca Dao Về Tình Cảm Gia Đình - Tập 3 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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I loved this book. Unequivocally. While Paredes' novel is supposedly a first draft that he wrote between '36 and '40 but did not publish until 1990, its obvious flaws (like an inconsistent mode of moving through time and sharp change in the protagonist's attitude in the last section despite his earlier conflict regarding his dual American and Mexican identities), do not detract from the apparent uniqueness of George Washington Gomez in terms of someone writing about Mexican-American identity at this time in the way he is writing it, presaging the post-modern attitude towards the fragmentary and paradoxical aspects of identity. It is possible that Paredes (a professor of English specializing in folklore) had read W.E.B. DuBois and thus the double-consciousness apparent in the text are an emulation of that, but either way, the author presents it masterfully, and makes the vacillating attitude towards GWG's social and economic condition both powerful and believable. Furthermore, put into the context of of pre-War American South, the way that Paredes approaches the history of Texas/Mexican borderlands, conflict and violence is at odds with how that history was (is?) generally taught in America - and he knew it. I can't help but think that the author knew that if he published this book in 1940 it would have made a lot of Gringos mad and probably would have been accused of sowing discord in the time of necessary national unity amid international conflict. The book does take a long time in setting up the development of the main character - he isn't even the focus until a child of six, well into the book - and it also meanders in places discussing history and politics of the fictional Texas town of Jonesville as a way to contextualize the borderland society, but I think that is part of this novel's greatness. It takes the time to show that a community and a society create a web that sustains, pushes and hampers individuals. At the end of the book, Gomez's acceptance the American ideal of individualism that is put to use towards scaffolding an ideology that neglects whole swaths of people is that much more crushing because of those meanderings. I cannot recommend this book enough and I think it needs to be part of a canon of not only Chicano literature, but of literature that explores the contradictions and conflicts inherent to representing ourselves as American.

Người đọc Ismail Hakkı từ Stare Węgorzynko, Poland

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.