Speaking Like An Immigrant
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Speaking Like An Immigrant, the 2nd edition of this one-of-a-kind bilingual collection by Mariana Romo-Carmona, contains stories of childhood, family, and immigration; stream of consciousness and magical realism, political awakenings, lesbian fantasy, surrealism, militant witchcraft and science fiction, the journey of an immigrant to a new country, and from one century to another. Winner of a Lambda Literary Foundation Award, and an Astraea Lesbian Fiction Award, Romo-Carmona is the author of a novel in English, Living At Night, and co-editor of the ground breaking Cuentos: Stories By Latinas. She was on the faculty of the Goddard College MFA In Writing Program for twelve years, and is on the faculty of the JSM Institute for Labor Studies/CUNY where she teaches literature since 2001. She writes about teaching Latin American literature in English at http://MarianaRomo-Carmona.blogspot.com. Born in Santiago, Chile, she resides in New York City.
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In 1999 this small book was printed, boxed, shipped here and there in a hopscotch journey of presentations and readings from New York City to Toronto, shelved in the last remaining independent bookstores of the twentieth century, and eventually spent many years stacked in a slowly dwindling edifice of boxes as it sold or was given away. Very slowly.
Collectively, I think in those days we were also witnessing the aftermath of the first Iraq war, perhaps the most disgraceful and horrific hostile action by the US until then, and the entire world seemed to wake up to what an empire can do, given enough fire power and five hundred years. I understood that what I often found myself writing about had to do with the significance of the quincentenary age that changed an entire continent, but I could not express, not adequately, the pain and the fragmentation of our history as Latin/Americans. I only knew, as a writer of small moments, of small truths, that these are every bit as relevant today as they were the day before and the day before that. What I could write, was about a personal process of shifting from one language to another, the creation of an immigrant culture, identity found in words, a small metaphor for existentialist angst of the political kind.
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Puerto Rico and Central Pennsylvania, 1998
“Beatriz, what are you doing to those poor animals?”
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