At times, these ethnic groups seem to live in mono-ethnic geographies. Morales clearly seeks rapprochement through otherness and a sense of strangeness. Works cited Morales, Alejandro. Adam Spires, Houston, Texas: Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World. Fiction Past, Present, Future Perfect.
El juego con los estereotipos. Critical Studies of Cities and Regions. A story of intercultural mis communication The focus of this study is an analysis of the novel The Brick People published by the Chicano author Alejandro Morales in and its homonymous documentary film from Both narrations are based on a true story, namely the lives of Mexican immigrants at the beginning of the twentieth century, who worked as employees in Simons Brickyard in Los Angeles, California.
Simons Brickyard was a remarkable company founded out of a utopian vision. The Mexican workers had access to all basic services —a school, a hospital, a store etc. Nonetheless, historians now depict Simons Brickyard as a perfect form of planned segregation which led to exploitation and poverty. In the official U. This study will try to reveal how the novel and the documentary deal with this emptiness or interstice in North-American history and how they reflect this cultural divide in Southern California.
We are particularly interested in how both the novelist and the documentary makers turn the topics of integration, of preservation of the own cultural identity and of cross-cultural dialogue into narratives. Both narratives are based on a true story, namely the lives of Mexican immigrants at the beginning of the twentieth century, who worked as employees in Simons Brickyard in Los Angeles, California, a city originally founded by Mexicans.
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This study will try to reveal how the novel and the documentary deal with this gap or interstice in North-American history and how they reflect the cultural divide in Southern California. Lector compulsivo y amante de los libros, desde. We are particularly interested in how both the novelist and the documentary makers present the topics of integration, of preservation or construction of the own Mexican cultural identity and of cross-cultural dialogue to an English speaking audience.
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