Book discussion continues on "Contemporary Immigration"
The second book in this Spring's BookTALK Series "Contemporary Immigration" Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros is now available for check out at the Baldwin City Library. Beginning with family trips from Chicago to Mexico
in the 1960s, circling back to stories from the Mexican Civil War,
Cisneros weaves a dense tapestry of family, identity, and immigration in
a fancifully postmodern style incorporating footnotes and characters
who argue with the narrator.
The
series "Contemporary Immigration" helps us examine America as a
"nation of immigrants." But that simple phrase disguises a complex
interaction of push-pull forces that has brought a shifting range of
immigrants to American shores over time. We readers will see how each new
wave of immigration brings new traditions, new foods, new styles, new
artistic traditions, and new histories into the complex mosaic of
American life. Use of salsa, it has been widely reported, now outpaces
consumption of ketchup. New immigration also has deeply enriched the range of American literature, as the works in this series show.
Baldwin City residents are invited to come to talk about this book at their February 16th discussion session at the Baldwin City Library, which will begin at 7:00 p.m. The discussion leader will be Peter Haney, who is
the assistant director for the Center of Latin American Studies at the
University of Kansas. Light refreshments will include coffee
provided by Jitters Java and Ice to warm up the conversation.
Friends of the Baldwin City Library join with the Kansas Humanities Council to sponsor these BookTALK discussion sessions.
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