Hispanic Identity in Writing (Part 8 of 10)

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2005

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Sandra Cisneros and Nina Marie Martínez

The two Hispanic women explain how they've been put into the cage of multiculturalism, sometimes by the way they view themselves, but primarily by publishers and readers, to the extent of being expected to read only certain kinds of literature. When the names Thomas Pynchon and Marguerite Duras come up, the conversation takes a turn, and the satisfactions of broad, deep reading are embraced...

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:07.0	You are a human animal.
0:11.1	You are a very special breed.
0:14.8	Or you are the only animal.
0:18.3	Who can think, who can reason, who can read.
0:22.1	From KCRW Santa Monica, this is Bookworm and I'm Michael Silverblatt.
0:27.4	Here's novelist Russell Banks.
0:30.0	The territoriality of identity politics, which seems to me, seems to me not just wrongheaded, but dangerous,
0:38.4	and for various reasons.
0:40.0	I mean, you have to ask, who does it serve,
0:41.6	follow the money, that sort of thing.
0:44.9	Who does it serve?
0:47.4	Well, hegemony of identity of any kind
0:50.0	serves marketing principles, basically.
0:53.0	It's niche marketing.
0:55.6	There's an economic use for it.
0:57.7	There's a political use for it.
0:59.0	You can target those voters with one speech.
1:00.9	You know exactly how to do it.
1:02.2	You can target the other voters with another speech,
1:04.8	and you can bring them into your party.
1:07.7	So I think, yeah, political and economic,
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