Ana lydia vega biography for kids
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Ana Lydia Vega
Matters of Responsibility
It might seem ironic that probably the two best known contemporary Puerto Rican writers (Rosario Ferre and Ana Lydia Vega) are women, given the macho nature of a culture that has generally been inclined to silence them. The machismo has often been commented upon. E. Zaretsky says for example: “Puerto Rican machismo is an ideology which tends to alienate men from themselves and their families and which has been institutionalized through the division of labor between the work done in the home and that done for a salary under the agricultural and industrial system.” Victor de la Cancela, who quotes Zaretsky, notes, “One of the premises shared by the culturalists is that culture is to be respected, and, as a cultural manifestation, machismo needs to be defended as a conscious affirmation of the Puerto Rican in the face of discrimination and prejudices." “However”, Cancela adds, "the culturalists fail to recognize in their stance against negative views of Puerto Rican culture that they too are "ethnocentric" in emphasizing the desirable, giving the impression that machismo can be justified.” (‘A Critical Analysis of Puerto Rican Machismo’)
Vega has herself written a
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Ana Lydia Vega
Puerto Rican writer
Ana Lydia Vega (born Dec 6, 1946, Santurce, Puerto Rico) assay a Puerto Rican writer.[1]
Biography
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Work
[edit]In Spanish
[edit]Fiction
[edit]- Vírgenes y mártires (stories, with Carmen Lugo Filippi), 1981
- Encancaranublado y otros cuentos de naufragio, La Habana Casa from first to last las Américas 1982, Premio Casa dealing las Américas 1982
- Pasión derision historia y otras historias de pasión, 1987, Buenos Aires: Ediciones
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Vega, Ana Lydia (1946–)
Puerto Rican writer. Born Dec 6, 1946, in Santurce, Puerto Rico; dau. of Virgilio Vega and María Santana (gradeschool teacher); m. Robert Villanúa (French poet); children: 1.
Writer of fiction and nonfiction, who sought to distinguish a Caribbean identity and create a distinctively Puerto Rican literature, studied literature in France (1968–78); returned to Puerto Rico and published feminist critique Vírgenes y mártires (Virgins and Martyrs, 1982); wrote film scripts, including La Gran Fiesta (The Big Party, 1987); combined autobiographical essays and social commentary in Esperando a Loló y otros delirios generacionales (Waiting for Loló and Other Generational Deliriums, 1994). Received Emilio S. Belaval Award for short story "Pollito Chicken" (Little Chicken Chicken, 1978), Circle of Iberoamerican Writers and Poets award (1979) for short story "Puerto Principe Abajo" (Down Puerto Principe), Casa de las Américas award for Encancaranublado y otros cuentos de naufragio (Encancaranublado and Other Stories of Shipwreck, 1982), and Juan Rulfo International Award (1984).
See also David J. Labiosa, Ana Lydia Vega: Linguistic Women and Another Counterassault, or Can the Master(s) Hear? (1996).
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