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Overseas American : Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics /

Born in 1941 of a Hawaiian mother and a white father, Gene H. Bell-Villada, grew up an overseas American citizen. An outsider wherever he landed, he never had a ready answer to the innocuous question "Where are you from?" By the time Bell-Villada was a teenager, he had lived in Puerto Rico...

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Autor principal: Bell-Villada, Gene H., 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword, with Hindsight: American, Overseas; PART ONE: OVERSEAS; Next Stop, San Juan; When We Were Almost Puerto Ricans; Strange Interlude in Venezuela and Florida; Cuban Military Cadet No. 562; Family Interludes in Puerto Rico; On Being Gringo in Caracas; PART TWO: AMERICAN; Not Yet at Home in El Norte; Trying Another Coast; Life in (and outside of) the Heartland; Expatriation et cetera; Afterword, without an End: Overseas American.