THE MEANING OF CONSUELO: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 04640003B00314

English Summary/英文概要： In this novel, we follow a Puerto Rican girl’s quest to negotiate her own terms of survival within the confines of her culture. Coming of age in the 1950s, when American influence threatens to dilute the island’s traditional Spanish customs, as well as to harm, perhaps irreparably, its fragile ecology, Consuelo watches her family being torn assunder - much like the island itself. Her father believes the future lies in American technology, including the new autopista that will soon cut the island in two. But Consuelo has heard her abuela say that once foreign noise drowns out the song of the coqui, the island’s emblematic tree frog, the voices of puertorriquenos themselves will be silenced.
Meanwhile, Consuelo confronts her own transformation. For something is not right in this Puerto Rican family; a tragedia is developing like a tumor at its core. It is Consuelo who first notices her younger sister Mili’s vivaciousness turn into mysterious bouts of hysteria, her playful, invented language shift into an incomprehensible and chilling "language of birds.
Ultimately it is Consuelo who must choose: Will she fulfill the expectations of her family, offering consolation as their tragedy unfolds? Or will she, like Maria Sereno, risk becoming la fulana, the outsider, in her journey toward a definition of herself as a Puerto Rican woman different from her mother and her grandmother?

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 康秀萝的意义
0464.00 2003 32开 185页
康秀萝是一个波多黎各姑娘。50年代里，美国的巨大影响威胁着这个小岛的西班牙文化传统，以及它脆弱的生态环境。她的家庭也像小岛一样解体了。父亲相信美国技术将主导未来，而她却担忧过去美好的东西将不复存在。她活泼的妹妹变得歇斯底里，原来很有趣的语言变成难以理解的“鸟语”。最后，康秀萝必须做出选择：她是做一个家庭里的安慰者，还是做一个独立的新女性？

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About the Author/作者介绍： Judith Ortiz Cofer是乔治亚大学的英语教授，同时也是一个诗人，散文家和小说家。她的小说受到好评，她的自传性的散文和诗集得了奖，她的作品还被收入重要的文集中。

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