Free Download Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either: Poems By Marisa Tirado
2022 | 46 Pages | ISBN: 1680032658 | PDF | 1 MB
Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either is a debut poetry collection which seeks Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla as a means of reconnecting to the speaker’s cultural identity. As Spanish language and culture becomes more accessible to non-Latinx populations, the speaker grapples with her own complex story of assimilation. Modern marginalization, appropriation, tokenizing, and fetishizing are examined in this multi-generational memoir tracking a Latinx family’s journey to assimilation. This dynamic collection is far-reaching, exploring BIPOC experiences in predominantly white cultures.from "Young Memoir"di·as·po·rais silent. is spiritual. It is being robbed of memoir while you sleep in a suburb. it is nonconsensually sensual-it is a question. when it comes for you, what will you recover? what will you do to reclaim all that was forced lost?