%0 Journal Article 
%A Méndez, Danny
%T Culture and the city : Pedro Henríquez Ureña's New York city
%D 2011
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/11126
%X Pedro Henríquez Ureña’s memoir, written in 1909 while in México (but published in its entirety in 1989) may well be claimed as one of the first written accounts
by a Dominican intellectual in the United States. In this paper I analyze the cultural implications of what it meant to be Dominican at the beginning of the 20th century for a non-white elite intellectual such as Henríquez Ureña in New York City. Although I
view Henríquez Ureña’s memoir as a depiction of travel experiences of modernity, I am also interpreting his memoir as a historically prefiguring attempt at recapturing the Dominican nation he had gradually displaced himself from (for different reasons). I argue that Henríquez Ureña’s memoir is itself the literal site of exposure of a life that
had been constantly marked by dislocations and relocations.

%K Memoir
%K Migrations
%K Race
%K Early Dominican presence in the U.S.
%K New York city
%K Politics
%K Identity
%K Exile
%K Culture
%K Literature
%K Intellectuals
%K Memoria
%K Migración
%K Raza
%K Presencia dominicana temprana en los Estados Unidos
%K Nueva York
%K Política
%K Identidad
%K Exilio
%K Cultura
%K Literatura
%K Intelectuales
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