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Reflections on a Puerto Rican Life: Benjy Lopez: A Picaresque Tale of Emigration and Return
Barry B. Levine
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Description for Reflections on a Puerto Rican Life: Benjy Lopez: A Picaresque Tale of Emigration and Return
Paperback. Tells the life history of Benjy Lopez which includes Benjy Lopez' return and life in Puerto Rico as a successful businessman. This autobiographical account exposes the half-truth that the typical experience of the ordinary Puerto Rican transposed to New York City, is exclusively defined by privation, fear, prejudice, and culture shock. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJP; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Hailed as a 'masterpiece' in ""NewsWeek"" magazine by Yale art historian Robert Ferris Thompson, the life history of Benjy Lopez is now available in an expanded edition which includes Benjy Lopez' return and life in Puerto Rico as a successful businessman. This engaging autobiographical account is a pioneering vision exposing the half-truth that the typical experience of the ordinary Puerto Rican, particularly of the Puerto Rican transposed to New York City, is exclusively defined by privation, fear, prejudice, and culture shock. In so doing, Barry B. Levine successfully combats the myth of the victimized immigrant, proposing a picaresque sociology that ... Read more
Hailed as a 'masterpiece' in ""NewsWeek"" magazine by Yale art historian Robert Ferris Thompson, the life history of Benjy Lopez is now available in an expanded edition which includes Benjy Lopez' return and life in Puerto Rico as a successful businessman. This engaging autobiographical account is a pioneering vision exposing the half-truth that the typical experience of the ordinary Puerto Rican, particularly of the Puerto Rican transposed to New York City, is exclusively defined by privation, fear, prejudice, and culture shock. In so doing, Barry B. Levine successfully combats the myth of the victimized immigrant, proposing a picaresque sociology that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Markus Wiener Publishers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Princeton, United States
ISBN
9781558764842
SKU
V9781558764842
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About Barry B. Levine
Barry B. Levine, University in Miami, was for twenty years the editor of Caribbean Review, and authored several books including The Caribbean Exodus, and The New Cuban Presence in the Caribbean.
Reviews for Reflections on a Puerto Rican Life: Benjy Lopez: A Picaresque Tale of Emigration and Return
Wonderful. - Newsweek ""Levine has rescued Third World man from indignity."" - Latin America in Books