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
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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
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
U.S. Latino literature
Nature of contents
bibliographyhandbooks
Oclc number
43296870
Responsibility statement
edited by Harold Augenbraum and Margarite Fernández Olmos under the auspices of the Mercantile Library of New York
Sub title
a critical guide for students and teachers
Summary
Suggests ways to utilize Latino works in the classroom, providing profiles of Latino authors, contextual information about the literary and cultural significance of individual works, and critical essays on the themes the works address
Table Of 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
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- América Latina + Vida intelectual -- Manuales
- American literature + Hispanic American authors + History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Hispanic Americans in literature
- Littérature américaine + Auteurs américains d'origine latino-américaine + Histoire et critique -- Guides, manuels, etc
- Américains d'origine latino-américaine dans la littérature -- Guides, manuels, etc
- América Latina en la literatura -- Manuales
- American literature + Hispanic American authors
- Hispanic Americans + Intellectual life -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Handbooks and manuals
- Hispanic Americans + Intellectual life
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Hispanic Americans in literature -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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- América Latina + Vida intelectual -- Manuales
- American literature + Hispanic American authors + History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Hispanic Americans in literature
- Littérature américaine + Auteurs américains d'origine latino-américaine + Histoire et critique -- Guides, manuels, etc
- Américains d'origine latino-américaine dans la littérature -- Guides, manuels, etc
- América Latina en la literatura -- Manuales
- American literature + Hispanic American authors
- Hispanic Americans + Intellectual life -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Handbooks and manuals
- Hispanic Americans + Intellectual life
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Hispanic Americans in literature -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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- Other version1
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