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U.S. Latino literature : a critical guide for students and teachers

Author: Harold Augenbraum; Margarite Fernández Olmos; Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York.
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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.
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U.S. Latino literature.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000
(OCoLC)656807641
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Harold Augenbraum; Margarite Fernández Olmos; Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York.
ISBN: 0313311374 9780313311376
OCLC Number: 43296870
Description: xv, 215 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Harold Augenbraum and Margarite Fernández Olmos under the auspices of the Mercantile Library of New York.

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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.

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