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U.S. Latino Literature Today
Gabriela Baeza Ventura, University of Houston

ISBN-10: 0321198433
ISBN-13:  9780321198433

Publisher:  Longman
Copyright:  2005
Format:  Paper; 352 pp
Published:  08/25/2004
Status: Instock


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Organized thematically, U.S. Latino Literature Today offers a wide range of poetry, fiction, essays, and drama by established and emerging contemporary Latino-American writers.

  • Thematic organization contextualizes works and helps students gain greater insight into each selection.
  • A wide breadth of selections features the works of well-established authors alongside more contemporary Latino writers demonstrates new trends in Latin-American literature.
  • Represents authors from a range of nationalities and cultures within the Latino/Hispanic-American community, beyond the usual three: Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban.
  • Includes key interpretive devices—a list of Latino films, a chronology, and a list of Author Websites.
  • Each selection is accompanied by a brief biography of the author and a list of his/her primary works.
  • A glossary of Spanish terms is included.

General Introduction.

I. NATIVE.

Poetry.

Miguel Algarìn, “Taos Pueblo Indians: 700 Strong According to Bobby's Last Census.”

Alurista, “el sarape de mi personalidad.”

Jimmy Santiago Baca, “Martìn III.”

Rafael Campo, “Belonging.”

Lorna Dee Cervantes, “Astro-no-mìa.”

Lucha Corpi, “Marina Madre.”

Sandra Marìa Esteves, “Affirmation #3, Take Off Your Mask.”

Ray Gonzàlez, “These Days.”

Victor Hernàndez Cruz, “loisaida.”

Carolina Hospital, “Hyphenated Man.”

Angela de Hoyos, “Lessons on Semantics.”

Tato Laviera, “AmeRìkan.”

Pat Mora, “Legal Alien.”

Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales, “Ending Poem.”

Miguel Piñero, “A Lower East Side Poem.”

Luis Omar Salinas, “I am America.”

Tino Villanueva, “Chicano Dropout.”

Fiction.

Veronica Chambers, “Secret Latina at Large.”

Judith Ortiz Cofer, “Silent Dancing.”

Américo Paredes, “The Hammon and the Beans.”

Patricia Preciado Martin, “Dichos.”

Tomàs Rivera, “Zoo Island.”

Nelly Rosario, “On Becoming.”

Rosaura Sànchez, “Dallas.”

Piri Thomas, Prologue to “Seven Long Times.”

Helena Marìa Viramontes, “Birthday.”

Richard Yañez, “Desert Vista.”

Essay.

Cherrìe Moraga, “La Guera.”

Benjamìn Alire Sàenz, “Exile.”

Drama.

Luis Valdez, “Los Vendidos.”

II. EXILE AND IMMIGRATION.

Poetry.

Marjorie Agosìn, “United States/Estados Unidos.”

Claribel Alegrìa, “Nocturnal Visits.”

Richard Blanco, “América,” “Havanasis,” “El Juan.”

Tomàs Borge, “Nicaragua.”

Pablo Antonio Cuadra, “The Campesinos Go Down the Roads.”

Martìn Espada, “Federico's Ghost,” “Revolutionary Spanish Lesson.”

Dolly Filàrtiga, “Guaranì Anguish,” “Always the North.”

Isaac Goldenmberg, “Self-Portrait.”

Vìctor Montejo, “The Dog.”

José Marìa Heredia, “Hymn of the Exile.”

Gustavo Pérez Firmat, “Bilingual Blues.”

Salomòn de la Selva (Nicaragua), “A Song for Wall Street.”

Fiction.

Alicia Alarcòn, “All I Thought About Was Disneyland.”

Julia Alvarez, sel. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.

Arturo Arias, “Toward Patzùn.”

Roberto G. Fernàndez, “Miracle at Eighth and Twelfth.”

Aurora Levins Morales, “Immigrants.”

Vìctor Montejo, sel. from Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village.

Alicia Partnoy, sel. from The Little School.

Virgil Suàrez , “Balsero Dreams,” “Grandmother's Instructions.”

Essay.

Claribel Alegrìa, “The Politics of Exile.”

José Martì, “Our America.”

Drama.

Ivàn Acosta, from “El Sùper.”

III.TRANSCULTURAL.

Poetry.

Carolina Monsisvais, “Somewhere between Houston and El Paso.”

Sandra Cisneros, “Tango for the Broom.”

Alicia Gaspar de Alba, “Huitlacoche Crepes.”

Tony Medina, “The Illiterati.”

Radames Ortiz, “Alleys,” “Night Cruising.”

Ruth Sanabria Irupé, “Las a-e-i-o-u's de los ums seeking tongues of migratin' letras que ain't no way hiding.”

Brenda Càrdenas, “ñ.”

Olga Angelina Garcìa, “Lengualistic algo.”

Leticia Hernàndez Linares, “Conversaciones.”

Nancy Mercado, “Jetties Were the Bridges I Crossed.”

Marisela Norte, “Peeping Tom Tom Girl.”

Luis Rodriguez, “My Name is Not Rodriguez.”

robbert karimi, “The Reinvention of Zero.”

Frank Varela, “The Seven African Gods.”

Fiction.

Giannina Braschi, “Blow Up.”

Norma Cantù, “Piojos,” “Tino.”

Junot Dìaz, “Aguant ndo.”

Rigoberto Gonzalez, “La Quebrada.”

Jaime Manrique, “Señoritas in Love.”

Mike Padilla, “Carrying Sergei.”

Ramòn Tianguis Pérez, “Crossing the Border.”

Roberto Quesada, “Miami International Airport.”

Essay.

Gloria Anzaldùa, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.”

Guillermo Gòmez Peña, “Danger Zone: Cultural Relations Between Chicanos and Mexicans at the End of the Century.”

Drama.

Josefina Lòpez, “Simply Marìa or The American Dream.”

Film list.

Chronology.

Major Websites and Other Resources.

Index.

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