Se Habla Español Analysis

Spanish is forever a part of the Americas’ history. For centuries, the language reigned over Central America, western South America, and the Caribbean, embedding itself deeply into cultures of modern countries in the region, such as: Mexico, Chile, Cuba, and so forth. However, despite Spanish’s impressive influence over such swaths of land, Hispanic descendants from this Latin America faced persecution within the United States predominantly in the late 1900s. Two authors, Marjorie Agosín and Tanya Maria Barrientos, showcase firsthand the experience of enduring a Hispanic heritage in the United States through their comparable literacy narratives. In Agosín's "Always Living in Spanish: Recovering the Familiar, through Language,” and Barrientos's "Se Habla Español,” both authors elucidate the common, yet varying struggle felt by most Hispanics in the United States during the late 1900s through their comparison in diction, contrast in their personal origin, and comparison/contrast in their perspectives of Spanish. The first similarity between Agosín and Barrientos’s works is their …show more content…
Although no mention of a collaboration between Agosín and Barrientos is evident, their works harmoniously aligned. Passed their enthralling stories of their personal journey, conflicts and obstacles impeding their paths, and areas with topics so similar with one another that they surely convened, their voices share history’s past plight. Perhaps it is the grand problems in dire need of addressing and the unintentional, unbeknownst alliances rallying that makes the big world seem like a small world, after