Overseas American
Born in 1941 of a Hawaiian mother and a white father, Gene H. Bell-Villada, grew up an overseas American citizen. An outsider wherever he landed, he never had a ready answer to the innocuous question ""Where are you from?"" By the time Bell-Villada was a teenager, he had lived in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Cuba. Though English was his first language, his claim on U.S. citizenship was a hollow one. All he knew of his purported ""homeland"" was gleaned from imported comic books and movies. He sp…
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- Full title :Overseas American.
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Born in 1941 of a Hawaiian mother and a white father, Gene H. Bell-Villada, grew up an overseas American citizen. An outsider wherever he landed, he never had a ready answer to the innocuous question ""Where are you from?"" By the time Bell-Villada was a teenager, he had lived in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Cuba. Though English was his first language, his claim on U.S. citizenship was a hollow one. All he knew of his purported ""homeland"" was gleaned from imported comic books and movies. He spoke Spanish fluently, but he never fully fit into the culture of the Latin American countries wher.
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University Press of Mississippi
- Place of Publication:Jackson
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (285 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781578067206, 1578067200
- oclc:on1024243248
- LC Classification:CT275
- Dewey Decimal:305.80599420
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