Overview
- Gives readers a subversive, funny, and inspirational narrative, like Don Quixote
- Tells a moving story about middle-aged struggles to overcome isolation
- Provides insight into Latino culture, prescient dreams, the Financial Crisis, and the heroics of small-business owners
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology (PSLA)
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“This book is literary anthropology at its very best. Peter Wogan succeeds in writing with beauty and grace about a knotty subject, offering a memorable tale of immigration, corporate greed, the American dream, and intercultural friendship. Every so often a book comes along that restores my faith in the lyrical and liberating possibilities of ethnography. This book has done that for me. I recommend it to all who care about the future of humanistic research and writing.” (Ruth Behar, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, USA)
“This book is a joy, proof that anthropology matters when it comes from a genuine desire to understand what makes us human. Peter Wogan has given us a memorable, learned, compassionate portrait of immigrants in America, with characters that are alive.” (Ilan Stavans, Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst College, USA)
“Corner-store dreams are my dreams. Not just in terms of our struggle to make it, but also ourdesire to belong and to be heard. I’ve lived in Salem most of my life. I've been to these tiendas that made my parents feel at home. Now I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to read this book.” (Jaime Arredondo, Treasurer for PCUN, Oregon Latino Farmworkers Organization)
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Book Title: Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis
Book Subtitle: A True Story about Risk, Entrepreneurship, Immigration, and Latino-Anglo Friendship
Authors: Peter Wogan
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52264-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84862-4Published: 18 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52264-7Published: 01 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-4218
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4226
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 229
Topics: Ethnography, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Latino Culture