Both mysterious and romantic, Catalan writer and journalist Blanca Busquets’s The House of Silence demonstrates how music can unknowingly bind together even the most distant people. Over the course of the narrative, we eagerly learn about the lives of these four disparate characters in early 20th century Spain, whose only connection is…
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Summer Reads: Malka Older and Manuel Gonzales
It’s an election year. The principles of democracy are being upheld in name only, as voters are forced to chose between the imperfect, corporate-backed establishment parties and idealists who are immediately written off as unrealistic. A rival party is attempting to wrestle control way from the incumbent by subtly coding…
Central America(ns) in Chicana Literature
As promised in my last post, I am moving along from the current views on Central American immigration and «unaccompanied minors» to discuss Central America, Central Americans, and Central American-Americans in literature. My argument today will be focused particularly on Central America as a literary symbol, particularly in the works…