Immigration Chronicles

Pego published a compilation of some of his first immigration chronicles in Como ovejas descarriadas (Like Lost Sheep, 1933). Humor is a prime component of these texts about his experience as an immigrant in New York. Pego qualified his chronicles as “lost sheep” in the prologue because they were published in periodicals in Costa Rica, Mexico and Spain.

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See: Feu, “Chronicling the Modern US: Aurelio Pego’s Immigration Journalism.” in Americanized Spanish Culture: Stories and Storytellers of Dislocated Empires, eds Christopher J. Castañeda and Miguel Bota. New York: Routledge 2022, 62-75.