(Ebook) Tracing Dominican Identity: The Writings of Pedro Henríquez Ureña by Juan R. Valdez ISBN 0230109373

(Ebook) Tracing Dominican Identity: The Writings of Pedro Henríquez Ureña by Juan R. Valdez ISBN 0230109373

How did all things African disappear from Santo Domingo? How did a white Hispanic identity instead come to dominate the country’s collective consciousness? Why did Dominican intellectuals, in trying to create a free and modern society and shield their country from North American imperialism, reengage Spanish neocolonialism? In an effort to explore these questions, the author analyzes and discusses the socio-historical meanings and implications of Pedro Henr?quez Ure?a’s (1884-1946) writings on language. This important twentieth century Latin American intellectual is an unavoidable reference in Hispanic Linguistics and Cultural Studies and his texts make us confront the ideological underpinnings of language, race, and identity in the context of Latin America and the pan-Hispanic community.