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jun 21, 2019
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shopping center, communication, mothers and daughters, old age, sociocultural values

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The 2004 play Te besaré toda la vida, by Puerto Rican playwright José Luis Figueroa, is a text that illustrates the sociocultural exchanges that take place at a mall. In particular, the setting is Plaza Las Américas in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where four characters gather —and thanks to mediators or intermediarios— are able to communicate and understand each other. Along with the topic of communication, the play explores issues such as social roles of the elderly, mother-daughter relationships, and the way art is valued in daily modern life. With the shopping center as its setting, this two-act play examines sociocultural exchanges between generations, subverting capitalistic notions of what is considered socially and culturally indispensable or worthy. Highlighting the art of communication and honoring the values of old age, this play provides apt reading and discussion material in an introductory course in genre and literary analysis for students of Spanish as a second language.

Nancy Bird-Soto
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Bird-Soto, N. (2019). At the Mall: Women, Specters and Spectators in José Luis Figueroa’s Te besaré toda la vida. Contextos: Estudios De Humanidades Y Ciencias Sociales, (45). Recuperado de https://revistas.umce.cl/index.php/contextos/article/view/1452

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