Review of El metro by Donato Ndongo
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2008-01-01
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Rizo, Elisa
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World Languages and Cultures
The Department of World Languages and Cultures seeks to provide an understanding of other cultures through their languages, providing both linguistic proficiency and cultural literacy. Majors in French, German, and Spanish are offered, and other coursework is offered in Arabic, Chinese, Classical Greek, Latin, Portuguese, and Russian
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El metro, la tercera novela de Donato Ndongo (Niefang, Guinea Ecuatorial, 1950), da prominencia a un tema transnacional:1 la inmigración ilegal de subsaharianos a Europa. Ya manifiesto en la producción narrativa de Ndongo desde la década de los setentas,2 el tema migratorio se desarrolla en El metro mediante una exploración de las estructuras culturales, económicas y políticas que destierran de sus lugares de origen a sectores de la población que se ven a sí mismos sin opciones, condenados a la pobreza.
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This is a manuscript of a book review from PALARA: Publications of the Afro-Latin American Research Association 12 (2008): 84. Posted with permission.
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