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While I may not be lumbering through conversations in Spanish (or, likelier, Spanglish) with my American peers, there are the smaller day-to-day interactions: ordering coffee at the university, asking where the bathroom is, getting directions. I like to think that each of these has a small cumulative effect...
...down in Spanish class this week and my teacher passed around the room a newspaper clipping about “Spanglish.” The article discussed not the Adam Sandler movie, but rather the phenomenon—or, as some would say, “problem”—of English’s pervasiveness in Spain. It’s true, English phrases are ubiquitous here. When young people here mean “blue jeans,” they say “blujin” instead of “pantalones azules...
...found a persona the audience likes--the lanky, ungainly goof who thinks he's a supreme jock--and he mostly sticks with it. He knows the mass audience wants its stars only in their familiar mode. When they try going upmarket--Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction, Sandler in Spanglish--the fan base deserts them...
...Diego, Calif., anymore. The Old World fades away--salsa is more popular than ketchup; Salma Hayek is bigger than Madonna--and the border is everywhere. One day soon it may seem a little backward for someone in the U.S. not to speak some Spanish, even the hybrid Spanglish of the Southwest: "Como se llama your dog?" Signs appear in the store windows of Garden City, Kans., that say SE HABLA ESPANOL, and you can buy extremely fresh mangoes at bodegas all over that town. Dalton, Ga. (pop. 27,900), has three Spanish-language newspapers. Says longtime resident Edwin Mitchell...
...change. But where lesser comix have settled for throwing a token Latino into the story, La Perdida ($20; 275 pages), Jessica Abel's intense new graphic novel from Pantheon, goes deeper. In fact, it goes "native." Featuring a story about an idealistic American living in Mexico and written in Spanglish dialogue, La Perdida examines what is increasingly becoming a major cultural shift in the U.S. by looking at it from the other side. Like a mirror image, the themes of the book reflect those with which America struggles: the clash of language, culture and class...