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Title 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.

Publication Info. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.9868 U11U    Check Shelf
Description xv, 215 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Hispanic Americans in literature -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Added Author Augenbraum, Harold.
Fernández Olmos, Margarite.
Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York.
ISBN 0313311374 alkaline paper
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