| Description |
xv, 215 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
"Under the auspices of the Mercantile Library of New York"--T.p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Literary strategies in Alvar Nuņez Cabeza de Vaca's The account / Harold Augenbraum -- Trials and tribulations : the life and works of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton / Beatrice Pita -- Piri Thomas' Down these mean streets : writing as a Nuyorican/Puerto Rican strategy for survival / Asela Rodriguez de Laguna -- Un mundo entero : Tomas Rivera and his world / Evangelina Vigil-Piņon -- Historical and magical, ancient and contemporary : the world of Rudolfo A. Anaya's Bless me, Ultima / Margarite Fernandez Olmos -- 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 Perez Firmat -- Female voices in Sandra Cisneros' The house on Mango Street / Myrna-Yamil Gonzalez -- Dominican-American bildungsroman : Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia girls lost their accents / Heather Rosario-Sievert -- In context : Gloria Anzaldua'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. Lopez -- Junot Diaz'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. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Hispanic Americans in literature -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| Added Author |
Augenbraum, Harold.
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Fernandez Olmos, Margarite.
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Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York.
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| ISBN |
0313311374 (alk. paper) |
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