Lucas Guevara / Alirio Diaz Guerra ; introduction by Nicolas Kanellos and Imara Liz Hernandez ; translated into English by Ethriam Cash Brammer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Díaz Guerra, Alirio, 1862-

Contributor:

Brammer, Ethriam Cash.

Series:

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project publication.

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritage

Standardized Title:

Lucas Guevara. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Fiction.

Emigration and immigration.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Houston, Tex. : Arte Publico Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lucas Guevara is the first Spanish-language novel of immigration to the United States. Published in the United States in 1914 by Colombian emigr#65533; D#65533;az Guerra, the novel establishes the structure and formula that numerous other Spanish-language narratives produced in this country would take up over the course of the twentieth century.Freshly arrived from the pristine countryside of South America, Lucas quickly becomes a victim of the modern Metropolis, its treacherous rogues, and its immoral women. Lucas finds no streets paved with gold. Instead he ultimately succumbs to the pleasures of the flesh and becomes an unscrupulous predator himself.From Lucas Guevara on, the Hispanic novel of immigration developed as a counter-narrative to the myths of the American Dream and the melting pot. Especially noteworthy are D#65533;az Guerra's satirical descriptions of the night life in the Bowery and the culture of New York boarding houses during the period when at least forty percent of the city's inhabitants were immigrants. Kanellos and Hern#65533;ndez trace the author's development as a writer and study Lucas Guevara in the context of Hispanic history and immigrant literature

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Translator�s Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""TEXT ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-61192-626-2

1-61192-211-9