/ kalebeul / 2008 / 11 / 30 / spanglish an important new literary language /
An interesting piece by the always interesting Ilan Stavans in a new French literary mag on the doormat describes briefly how in the States, with the success of Junot Díaz’s killer novel The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao and other stuff, Spanglish has moved from the rebellious, designed-to-be-misunderstood fringe to the mainstream. What we are seeing, he is on the verge of saying, is the emergence of another major literary language, for all that the absurd Royal Spanish Academy denies the very existence of the phenomenon. Interestingly Díaz says Oscar Wao uses code swapping, not Spanglish, but I don’t see that the former necessarily excludes the former.
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Trevor @ 30 November 2008 7:30 PM
Tags: junot díaz, spanglish
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