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Estudio sobre la identidad bilingüe y bicultural del puertorriqueño a través de las obras autobiográficas de Esmeralda Santiago, Cuando era puertorriqueña y Casi una mujer

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Identifier	Thesis 2223
Author	́́Vázquez, Netmarí Alexandra, 1978-
Title	Estudio sobre la identidad bilingüe y bicultural del puertorriqueño a través de las obras autobiográficas de Esmeralda Santiago, Cuando era puertorriqueña y Casi una mujer
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2012
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	I always found it difficult to describe the experience of being a bilingual and bicultural Puerto Rican living in the United States. Monolingual and monocultural individuals did not share the same experience and usually believed that Puerto Ricans could chose to speak in English or Spanish, behave more like a Puerto Rican or an American, as if there were an internal switch or mode. Puerto Ricans themselves would also develop an identity crisis of their own as they would begin to operate within the American culture and the English language; they would engage in an identity crisis from trying to sort out between two opposing and dueling cultural and linguistic identities as they would operate within society. As a bilingual and bicultural Puerto Rican, I began to describe my experience as at first a battle between dueling identities as I felt lost being caught in between who I was at home, a Spanish speaking Puerto Rican, and something foreign, an English speaking American that was also very much part of my reality as I was born and have lived in the United States my entire life. As began reconciling my two seemingly identities, I began to describe my bilingual and bicultural experience as something like a symbiotic fusion of both languages and cultures as the only way of transcending out of the bilingual and bicultural identity crisis and began researching information on the topic of bilingual and bicultural identity, its formation, and how other Puerto Rican writers described their own bilingual and bicultural experience as a Puerto Rican in the United States. I found that their experiences were consistent with my own, but I still found it difficult to articulate what it was like to be Puerto Rican and bilingual to people who weren't. However, when I read Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman, I found that her autobiographies detailed entire the bilingual and bicultural experience of Puerto Ricans in a way that resonated with every Puerto Rican I knew that read the book, but even more intriguing, it gave an inside perspective that was easily relatable to people who weren't Puerto Rican, in manner that also allowed to be able to sympathize with the immigrant or minority experience in the United States and appreciate the challenges and struggles that Puerto Ricans face in American society. Intrigued by Santiago's prose and ability to so accurately articulate the Puerto Rican experience I chose to make her autobiographies my thesis topic, The Bilingual and Bicultural Experience of Puerto Ricans through Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman, to help validate and authenticate her autobiographies as indicative of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States
Subject	Santiago, Esmeralda. Almost a woman. Spanish Santiago, Esmeralda. When I was Puerto Rican. Spanish Authors, Puerto Rican -- 20th century Puerto Ricans -- United States Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity Hispanic Americans -- Cultural assimilation
Department	Department of Modern Languages
Advisor	Uribe, Lilian
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	spa
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