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Nuyorican Language and Poetry

Nuyorican Language and Poetry. By: Elizabeth Fletcher and Stanley Demosthene. Miguel Algarín. -Puerto Rican writer born September 11, 1941 - co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets café with Miguel Pinero -family raised him in a household which had a love for all things involving culture

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Nuyorican Language and Poetry

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  1. Nuyorican Language and Poetry By: Elizabeth Fletcher and Stanley Demosthene

  2. Miguel Algarín -Puerto Rican writer born September 11, 1941 -co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets café with Miguel Pinero -family raised him in a household which had a love for all things involving culture -greatly influenced by the works of Shakespeare, who also motivated Algarin to have his own place to tell his story. -Nuyorican Café began in 1973 in his living room where other poets and artists would gather -eventually too many people began showing up, and Miguel looked to move to a larger, more comfortable location.

  3. Miguel Piñero • 1946-1988 • Co founded the Nuyorican Poets café • Born in Puerto Rico, moved to the Lower East Side, NY at age 4 • Lower East Side • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLvCxEQIhBY

  4. Definition of nuyorican n. A Puerto Rican living in New York or one who has lived in New York and returned to Puerto Rico.

  5. Introduction: Nuyorican Language • Survival for the New York Puerto Ricans • The significance of the poet

  6. Three Survival Possibilites for Puerto Ricans in New York -labor for money and exist in eternal debt -refuse to trade hours for dollars; “hustle” -possibility to create alternative behavioral habits.

  7. The Importance of Family/Community • Maria , The First Choice • -“…has been working ever since I was born and she plans to keep on working. She feels safe when she works. She feels proud.”(9) • Joey’s house, The Second Choice • -“people who will comply with a renegade’s law: cheat, lie, strike, kill, deal, sell, buy, rob, cut, choke.”(10) • The Renegades and The Dynamics Brothers, The Third Choice • -creates ”alternative” behavioral habits • -creating laws within a community that protects, rather than threatens the community. The community in turn will look out for you. • -NUYORICAN DREAM

  8. The Evolution of Grammar • Two problems: (Page 19) • 1) A language that grows out of street experience is dynamic and erratic • 2) If the rules of the language do not come from street people, they will come from old systems of rules on new patterns of speech.

  9. “The street definition of the Nuyorican artist is that he creates everything from the raw” (Page 23). • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJdSIoBMddo&feature=related

  10. BIBLIOGRAPHY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkjBAVeDrY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLvCxEQIhBY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJdSIoBMddo&feature=related http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Algar%C3%ADn http://latinomasculinities.wordpress.com/course-blog/7-pinero/

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