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U.S. Latino literature : a critical guide for students and teachers / edited by Harold Augenbraum and Margarite Fernández Olmos under the auspices of the Mercantile Library of New York.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- American literature.
- Hispanic Americans--Intellectual life--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Hispanic Americans in literature--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Hispanic Americans in literature.
- Hispanic Americans--Intellectual life.
- American literature--Hispanic American authors.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 215 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The first collection of essays dedicated exclusively to Latino literature from across the United States geared to the needs of students and teachers.
- Contents:
- Literary strategies in Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's The account / Harold Augenbraum
- Trials and tribulations: the life and works of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton / Beatrice Pita
- Piri Thomas' Down these mean streets: writing as a Nuyorican/Puerto Rican strategy for survival / Asela Rodríguez de Laguna
- Un mundo entero: Tomás Rivera and his world / Evangelina Vigil-Piñón
- Historical and magical, ancient and contemporary: the world of Rudolfo A. Anaya's Bless me, Ultima / Margarite Fernández Olmos
- The self as cultural metaphor: Oscar "Zeta" Acosta's The autobiography of a brown buffalo / Genaro M. Padilla
- Adapting, not assimilating: Edward Rivera's Family installments / Alfredo Villanueva-Collado
- Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of memory and the rejection of the private self / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
- Teaching Oscar Hijuelos' Our house in the last world / Gustavo Pérez Firmat
- Female voices in Sandra Cisneros' The house on Mango Street / Myrna-Yamil González
- The Dominican-American bildungsroman: Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia girls lost their accents / Heather Rosario-Sievert
- In context: Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera: the new Mestiza / Hector A. Torres
- Writing a life: When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago / Aileen Schmidt
- Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Latin deli / Rafael Ocasio
- Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban: the contested domains of politics, family, and history / Iraida H. López
- Junot Díaz's Drown: revisiting "those mean streets" / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
- Using Latina poetry in the classroom / Bryce Milligan
- Borders and birthrights: watching Cheech Marin's Born in East L.A. / Chon A. Noriega.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: U.S. Latino literature.
- ISBN:
- 9780313088629
- 0313088624
- Publisher Number:
- 99990106894
- 9780313311376
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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