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美国西语裔文学是指母语为西班牙语的少数族裔人群所创作的文学作品,这些族裔包括拉丁美洲移民及其后裔和美国西南部墨西哥裔原住居民及其后裔。近些年,很多西语族裔文学作品摘得了普利策奖等诸多重要文学奖项,其研究也越来越受到文学研究界的关注。目前,以墨西哥裔为主的西语族裔人口已经超过黑人,成为美国最大的少数民族,西班牙语也成为美国第二大语言。在这种背景下,西语族裔文学逐渐实现了从边缘到主流的突围,产生了一批优秀的作家,奥斯卡·海杰罗斯(Oscar Hijuelos)就是其中的佼佼者。1990年,他以其第二部小说《曼波王演奏爱之歌》(The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love)
Hispanic-American literature refers to literary works by ethnic minorities whose native language is Spanish, including Latin American immigrants and their descendants and Mexican-Mexican aboriginal peoples and their descendants in the southwestern United States. In recent years, many western ethnic literary works have won many important literary awards, such as the Pulitzer Prize, and their research has drawn more and more attention from the literary research community. At present, the Hispanic-speaking ethnic population, predominantly Mexican, has surpassed the Negro population and became the largest ethnic minority in the United States. Spanish has also become the second largest language in the United States. Against this background, Western ethnographic literature gradually realized its breakthrough from the periphery to the mainstream and produced a number of excellent writers. Oscar Hijuelos is one of the outstanding writers. In 1990, with his second novel “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love”