ABSTRACT

This chapter grounds the immigration chronicles of Aurelio Pego in flânerie and narrative journalism to shows the author’s adoption of canonical and popular responses to central themes of US modernity: the frenzied mechanization, the lack of morality, the corrupting materialism, the growing crime, the dehumanization of immigrants, and the role of US–Hispanic societies in the modern scene. Pego published entertaining observations of the United States for his Hispanic readers and reclaimed the inclusion of leisure, humor, and humanistic values in modern times.