Between 1960 and 1986, more than 400 000 Dominicans legally emigrated from the Dominican Republic to the United States, especially to New York and new Jersey, and several thousand others, illegally. In the 90 years, they became the second largest Hispanic group in the northeast, which had significant consequences for the Dominicans who emigrated to the United States, their families in the Dominican Republic and the Americans in general. Today, with the Hispanic community as the largest minority in the United States and with growth projections at an accelerated pace, the Dominican diaspora is another example of the "integration" of a Hispanic sub-group into the life of the American society. The aim of this research is to focus on a specific
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Diaz’s Drown is composed of ten tales that follow the model of a quasicronologic narrative of the history of a Dominican family. Each story is a chapter that presents different moments of the life of the characters and the narrator, Yunior, who grows up during the novel. The brief and Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao is similarly a Dominican family story centered on a young but disoriented American Dominican man in search of love in a hostile world. The intention with this review of the sociological situation on the Dominican community in New York-New Jersey and the books of Diaz is to support the thesis that the first generation of immigrants in the United States suffers from adversities socialy and culturally, we will do this by showing a fictitious but plausible literary example based on the experience of life. In the brief and wonderful Life of Oscar …show more content…
In “Drown” we find several mentions of this in the short story: "Washington Heights" is the first place Ramón, Yunior's father, finds on his arrival in New York: "His first year in New York lived in Washington", on a cockroach floor over today's Tres Marias restaurant (Drown 177). We can see in this commentary that it was the logical goal for every Dominican immigrant in New York. The idea of a small version of the original Dominican Republic, of restaurants and shops with Spanish names-like the three Marias-is affirmed in the short story "Edison, New Jersey" when Yunior recognizes a young girl as a Dominican when she says that lives in Washington Heights, and who finally makes this insightful statement: "Everything in Washington Heights is Dominican." You cannot walk a block without passing a Quisqueya bakery or a Quisqueya supermarket or a Quisqueya hotel "(Drow 137). This portrayal of the Dominican identity seems to be a product of the lack of integration in white America and the rejection of the African American culture This lack of integration leads, as we have seen, to low wage jobs and racism towards Hispanics in the United States who can be drowned in the "business" when Papi gets a job at Reynolds Aluminum in western New York and although the money was fine "was the first time he took off the umbra of his with-immigrants." Racism
Diaz’s Drown is composed of ten tales that follow the model of a quasicronologic narrative of the history of a Dominican family. Each story is a chapter that presents different moments of the life of the characters and the narrator, Yunior, who grows up during the novel. The brief and Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao is similarly a Dominican family story centered on a young but disoriented American Dominican man in search of love in a hostile world. The intention with this review of the sociological situation on the Dominican community in New York-New Jersey and the books of Diaz is to support the thesis that the first generation of immigrants in the United States suffers from adversities socialy and culturally, we will do this by showing a fictitious but plausible literary example based on the experience of life. In the brief and wonderful Life of Oscar …show more content…
In “Drown” we find several mentions of this in the short story: "Washington Heights" is the first place Ramón, Yunior's father, finds on his arrival in New York: "His first year in New York lived in Washington", on a cockroach floor over today's Tres Marias restaurant (Drown 177). We can see in this commentary that it was the logical goal for every Dominican immigrant in New York. The idea of a small version of the original Dominican Republic, of restaurants and shops with Spanish names-like the three Marias-is affirmed in the short story "Edison, New Jersey" when Yunior recognizes a young girl as a Dominican when she says that lives in Washington Heights, and who finally makes this insightful statement: "Everything in Washington Heights is Dominican." You cannot walk a block without passing a Quisqueya bakery or a Quisqueya supermarket or a Quisqueya hotel "(Drow 137). This portrayal of the Dominican identity seems to be a product of the lack of integration in white America and the rejection of the African American culture This lack of integration leads, as we have seen, to low wage jobs and racism towards Hispanics in the United States who can be drowned in the "business" when Papi gets a job at Reynolds Aluminum in western New York and although the money was fine "was the first time he took off the umbra of his with-immigrants." Racism