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The Latino reader : an American literary tradition from 1542 to the present / edited and with an introduction by Harold Augenbraum and Margarite Fernández Olmos.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Hispanic American authors.
- American literature.
- Exiles' writings, Spanish American--Translations into English.
- Exiles' writings, Spanish American.
- Spanish American literature--Translations into English.
- Spanish American literature.
- Hispanic Americans--Literary collections.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Exiles.
- Exiles--Literary collections.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 502 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.
- Summary:
- "The Latino Reader" presents the full history of this important American literary tradition, from its mid-sixteenth-century beginnings to the present day. The wide-ranging selections include works of history, memoir, letters, and essays, as well as fiction, poetry, and drama.
- Contents:
- I. Encounters. Account [1542-1555] / Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
- Florida [1605] / Inca, Garcilaso de la Vega
- History of New Mexico [1610] / Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá
- Lord, if the shepherd does not hear [1724] / Fray Mathias Sáenz de San Antonio
- Comanches [ca. 1780] / unknown
- Historic account of the life and apostolic work of the Venerable Fray Junípero Serra [1787] / Francisco Palóu
- II. Prelude. Niagara [1824] / José María Heredia
- An old woman remembers [1877] / Eulalia Pérez
- Squatter and the don [1885] / María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
- Vindication of Cuba [1889]; Simple verses [1891] / José Martí
- New York from within [1892]; In the album of an unknown woman [1892]; Improvisation [1892] / Pachín Marín
- Son of the storm [1892] / Eusebio Chacón
- Ballad of Gregorio Cortez [ca. 1901] / unknown
- III. Latino United States. Rebel [ca. 1920] / Leonor Villegas de Magnón
- To Elsie [1923]; All the fancy things [1927] / William Carlos Williams
- José Campeche, 1752-1809 [1934] / Arthur A. Schomburg
- Memoirs of Bernardo Vega [ca. 1944] / Bernardo Vega
- Mexican village [1945] / Josephina Niggli
- Cuco goes to a party [1947] / Mario Suárez
- Returning [1947]; Farewell in Welfare Island [1953] / Julia de Burgos
- Romance of a little village girl [1955] / Cleofas Jaramillo
- God in Harlem [1956] / Pedro Juan Soto
- Pocho [1959] / José Antonio Villarreal
- Hammon and the beans [1963] / Américo Paredes
- City of night [1963] / John Rechy
- I am Joaquín [1967] / Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzáles
- Down these mean streets [1967] / Piri Thomas
- Today is a day of great joy [1969]; African things [1973] / Victor Hernández Cruz
- el maguey en su desierto [1971]; must be the season of the witch [1971]; to be fathers once again [1971] / Alurista
- ...And the earth did not devour Him [1971] / Tomás Rivera
- Bless me, Ultima [1972] / Rudolfo Anaya
- Revolt of the cockroach people [1973] / Oscar "Zeta" Acosta
- Nilda [1973] / Nicholasa Mohr
- Puerto Rican obituary [1973] / Pedro Pietri
- Short eyes [1974]; Lower East Side poem [1980] / Miguel Piñero
- Beautiful señoritas [1977] / Dolores Prida
- Zoot suit [1978] / Luis Valdez
- My graduation speech [1979]; AmeRican [1985] / Tato Laviera
- From the Commonwealth [1979]; A la mujer borrinqueña [1980] / Sandra María Esteves
- For Ana Veldford [1981] / Lourdes Casal
- Poem for the young white man who asked me how I, an intelligent, well-read person, could believe in the war between the races [1981]; Visions of Mexico while at a writing symposium in Port Townsend, Washington [1981] / Lorna Dee Cervantes
- Hunger of memory: the education of Richard Rodriguez [1982] / Richard Rodriguez
- Family installments: memories of growing up Hispanic [1982] / Edward Rivera
- A long line of vendidas [1983]; Loving in the war years [1983] / Cherríe Moraga
- Moths [1985] / Helena María Viramontes
- Ending poem [1986] / Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales
- Doña Sóstenes [1987] / Rolando Hinojosa
- Borderlands La frontera: the new mestiza [1987] / Gloria Anzaldúa
- Woman hollering creek [1991] / Sandra Cisneros
- Dreaming in Cuban [1992] / Cristina Garcia
- American history [1993]; Guard duty [1993] / Judith Ortiz Cofer
- Fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien [1993] / Oscar Hijuelos.
- Notes:
- "A Marc Jaffe Book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [499]-502).
- ISBN:
- 0395765293
- 9780395765296
- 0395765285
- 9780395765289
- OCLC:
- 35305178
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- Contributor biographical information
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