U.S. Latino Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers (Hardcover)

Introduction by Harold Augenbraum and Margarite Fernandez Olmos Literary Strategies in Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's The Account by Harold Augenbraum Trials and Tribulations: The Life and Works of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton by Beatrice Pita Piri Thomas' Down These Mean Streets: Writing as a Nuyorican/Puerto Rican Strategy for Survival by Asela Rodriguez de Laguna Un Mundo Entero: ToMÁs Rivera and His World by Evangelina Vigil-Pinon Historical and Magical, Ancient and Contemporary: The World of Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima by Margarite Fernandez Olmos The Self as Cultural Metaphor: Oscar "Zeta" Acosta's The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo by Genaro M. Padilla Adapting, Not Assimilating: Edward Rivera's Family Installments by Alfredo Villanueva-Collado Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and the Rejection of the Private Self by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert Teaching Oscar Hijuelos' Our House in the Last World by Gustavo Perez-Firmat Female Voices in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street by Myrna-Yamil Gonzalez The Dominican-American Bildungsroman: Julia Alvarez' How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Heather Rosario-Sievert The Dialect(ic)s of Mestizaje in Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Hector A. Torres Writing a Life: When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago by Aileen Schmidt Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Latin Deli by Rafael Ocasio Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban: The Contested Domains of Politics, Family, and History by Iraida H. Lopez Junot Diaz's Drown Revisiting "Those Mean Streets" by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert Using Latina Poetry in the Classroom by Bryce Milligan Borders and Birthrights: Watching Cheech Marin's Born in East LA by Chon A. Noriega Appendices Index