Short Stories for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context & by Sara Constantakis, Thomas E. Barden

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RO: A characteristic many people have pointed out in the literature written by Puerto Ricans in New York is the highly autobiographical quality of it. Would you say that element is a particular characteristic of minority literature? JOC: The United States is a place of specialization. You’re supposed to stick to your little corner of literature. In Latin America and Europe, writers are writers. Octavio Paz writes plays, he JOC: I am not an expert in minority literatures, but I have read some Jewish novels and works by other ethnic minorities.

It has been reviewed very widely by Americans. I’ve been stunned that ninety-nine percent of the reviews have been extremely positive in what they say the message is. ’’ They can read the book in their language and get the flavor and the sense of the Puerto Rican idiom. I feel good about having written something that will teach people how Puerto Ricans think and talk. I want Puerto Ricans to read my novel, but they’re not going to learn as much as the Americans who may have Puerto Rican neighbors and not know what makes them different.

I sent it to the New Mexico Humanities Review because it seemed to me that they would be interested in something Hispanic and I was right. They published it. That is how I got hooked. I would write poems, Betty would critique them, and then I would send them out. That was in 1977 or ’78. I had only published something in a college journal before that. My official career as a writer began S h o r t 2 9 I have recently been asked to justify writing in English since I consider myself a Puerto Rican.

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