Tracing Dominican identity
Subtitle: the writings of Pedro Henríquez Ureña
By: Juan R. Valdez
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780230109377
Subjects: Knowledge; National characteristics, Dominican, in literature; Dominican Republic; In literature; Criticism and interpretation; Spanish language; Language and culture
Description: The author analyzes and discusses the socio-historical meanings and implications of Pedro Henríquez Ureña's (1884-1946) writings on language. This important twentieth century Latin American intellectual is an unavoidable reference in Hispanic Linguistics and Cultural Studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Pedro Henríquez Ureña: the making of a Latinamericanist; title: Linguistic ideologies and the history of linguistic ideas; title: Nationalism and Hispanoamericanism in the Dominican Republic and Latin America; title: Pedro Henríquez Ureña in Hispanic linguistics; title: Pedro Henríquez Ureña and the whitening of Dominican identity; title: Conclusion.