RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Culture and the city : Pedro Henríquez Ureña's New York city A1 Méndez, Danny K1 Memoir K1 Migrations K1 Race K1 Early Dominican presence in the U.S. K1 New York city K1 Politics K1 Identity K1 Exile K1 Culture K1 Literature K1 Intellectuals K1 Memoria K1 Migración K1 Raza K1 Presencia dominicana temprana en los Estados Unidos K1 Nueva York K1 Política K1 Identidad K1 Exilio K1 Cultura K1 Literatura K1 Intelectuales AB 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 accountsby 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 Iview 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 thathad been constantly marked by dislocations and relocations. PB Camino real: estudios de las hispanidades norteamericanas, 2011, n. 4, p. 143-168. ISSN 1889-5611 YR 2011 FD 2011 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/11126 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/11126 LA eng DS MINDS@UW RD 29-mar-2024