Making Callaloo in Detroit /

Drawing on memories of growing up in Detroit with Caribbean roots, Hernandez reveals a hidden community that craves sun and saltwater, dances to calypso, and makes callaloo, bakes, buljol, sanchocho, and pelau in their kitchens. Making Callaloo in Detroit explores questions of how we assimilate and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hernandez, Lolita
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Amerikanisches Englisch
Erzählung
West Indian Americans.
Short stories, American.
Caribbean Americans.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Nouvelles americaines.
Americains d'origine antillaise > Michigan > Detroit > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
West Indian Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Fiction.
Caribbean Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Fiction.
Michigan > Detroit.
Nouvelles.
Short stories.
Fiction.
short stories.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Drawing on memories of growing up in Detroit with Caribbean roots, Hernandez reveals a hidden community that craves sun and saltwater, dances to calypso, and makes callaloo, bakes, buljol, sanchocho, and pelau in their kitchens. Making Callaloo in Detroit explores questions of how we assimilate and retain identity, how families evolve as generations pass, how memory guides the present, and how the spirit world stays close to the living.--Publisher's description.
Physical Description:1 online resource (216 pages).
ISBN:9780814339701

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