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La Brega Presents: Esmeralda Santiago on Language and History
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20 minutes
Released:
Aug 23, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The writer Esmeralda Santiago’s latest book, “Las Madres,” is an intergenerational story about Puerto Rico, our history, and what it means to remember it. She recently spoke with The New Yorker’s Vinson Cunningham in an episode for The New Yorker Radio Hour, and we thought La Brega listeners would appreciate hearing this conversation about language and the longing. In 2008, Santiago suffered a stroke and had to relearn how to read words using some of the same strategies she had used to first learn English after moving to the States. In “Las Madres” a character named Luz has a similar experience. “For me, Luz is almost representative of Puerto Rico itself. We have this very long history that we don’t necessarily have access to. . . . Those of us who live outside of the island, we live the history but we don’t really know it.”
You can find more of the The New Yorker Radio Hour from WNYC Studios here, or wherever you get podcasts.
You can find more of the The New Yorker Radio Hour from WNYC Studios here, or wherever you get podcasts.
Released:
Aug 23, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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La Brega: historias de la experiencia boricua: Un podcast de siete episodios que combina elementos narrativos y del periodismo investigativo para revelar y reflexionar sobre cómo “la brega” ha definido muchos aspectos de la vida en Puerto Rico. Creado por un equipo de periodistas, productores, músicos y artistas boricuas en la isla y en la diáspora; es presentado por Alana Casanova-Burgess de On the Media. Disponible el miércoles, 24 de febrero. Una coproducción de WNYC Studios y Futuro Studios. by La Brega