Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Canas couldn't find a Spanish language day care center so she put her son into an English language program. Within six months, he no longer wanted to speak Spanish...
...would cover his ears and say, "I don't want to hear that language,'" Canas says, remembering the times she tried to speak with her son in Spanish...
...Canas enrolled Miguel in the Cambridge Public Schools' Amigos program, a Spanish-English bilingual program for Spanish-speaking and native English speaking children...
Cela, who won the Nobel Prize in 1989, recreates the world of a rural village around the time of the Spanish Civil War. Mazurka is a bizarre story, told in bits and pieces and filled with a confusing array of characters who are violent and lustful, pathetic and whimsical. The novel appears to be the result or transcription of several interviews with older women and men from the village, who are remembering the scandals and gossip from days past. Their stories are wandering and repetitious, but not without an ironic sense of humor--although at whose expense we cannot...
Cela seeks here both to write about the Spanish Civil War and to stress its unwrite-ability. Mazurka for Two Dead Men is an intricate, difficult study of a war which can never be contained or limited to novels or official reports of reputed fact, but lives on as long as people are alive who remember fragments, names and voices, from...