Title My broken language : a memoir / Quiara Alegria, Hudes.

Publication Info.	Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.
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Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department	LP BIO HUDES	Check Shelf

Edition	Large print edition.
Description	457 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Physical Medium	large print (16 point) rdafs
Description	Hispanic Americans Puerto Ricans lcdgt
	Women lcdgt
	Dramatists lcsh
Series	Thorndike press large print biography and memoir
	Thorndike Press large print biography series.
Contents	A multilingual block in West Philly -- Spanish becomes a secret; language of the dead -- English is for atheism; language of woodworking -- A name that is a mask -- An English cousin comes to visit -- Language of the forest -- Latina health vocab from the late '80s -- Spanglish cousins on the New Jersey turnpike -- Body language -- Sophomore year English -- Things go unsaid long enough... -- Possession's voice -- Sedo buys me an upright; language of Bach -- Taíno petroglyphs -- Lukumí thrones -- Silence=death -- Unwritten recipes -- Yoruba vocabulary -- A racial slur -- A book is its presence and absence -- Mom's accent -- Dad buys me a typewriter -- She said Norf Philly and one-two-free -- Atonality -- Fania everything and salsa out-of-prints -- The serenity prayer -- Sterling Library -- The Foraker Act (on Boriken's-and the diaspora's-language history) -- Gil-Scott Heron asks me a question -- Writing's a muscle, it gets stronger -- Broken language -- On obscenity -- Cold drink became a play -- Silence=death (déjà vu all over again) -- The book of our genius.
Summary	"Quiara Alegria Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother's North Philly kitchen. She was awed but haunted by the secrets of the family and the untold stories of the barrio--even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea of language around her, written and spoken, English and Spanish, bodies and books, Western art and sacred altars. Her family became her private pantheon, a gathering of powerful Orisha-like women with tragic real-world wounds, and she vowed to tell their stories--but first she'd have to get off the stairs and join the dance. She'd have to find her language"-- Back cover.
Subject	Hudes, Quiara Alegría.
	Hispanic American women dramatists -- Biography.
	Racially mixed people -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.
	Language and culture -- America.
	Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Biography.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Hispanic & Latino.
	PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting.
	Hispanic American women dramatists. (OCoLC)fst00957501
	Language and culture. (OCoLC)fst00992135
	Racially mixed people. (OCoLC)fst01086595
	America. (OCoLC)fst01239786
	Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. (OCoLC)fst01204170
	Large type books.
	Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Genre/Form	Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
	Autobiographies.
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
ISBN	9781432890216 (large print ; hardcover)
	1432890212 (large print ; hardcover)

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