%0 Journal Article
%T Esmeralda Santiago in the marketplace of identity politics
%A Mar¨ªa Acosta Cruz
%J Centro Journal
%D 2006
%I 
%X Esmeralda Santiag o  s Am¨¦rica s Dream, with its ahistorical subjectivism and idealization of an agrarian past, offers a  Latino  docile Puerto Rican as the nov e l  s central protagonist. This article explores the following: the marketability of Latinos, Puerto Rican literary history, and identity formation. Santiago s nostalgia positions her ideologically within 1930s 1950s Puerto Rican writing. Santiag o  s  te r ru o  presents a narrative model (exclusively working class characters, binary gender roles, an agrarian setting, a disconnection from contemporary culture) that reinvents the ste r e o t ype of the docile Puerto Rican. Am¨¦rica s Dream offers no interplay of hybridity one of the defining characteristics of Latino, and Puerto Rican identities.
%U http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37718110