U.S. Latino literature today / [edited by] Gabriela Baeza Ventura

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Subjects: American literature--Hispanic American authors
Hispanic Americans--Literary collections
Hispanic American literature (Spanish)
Hispanic Americans
Formats: Print
Material Type: Books
Language: English
Audience: Unspecified
Published: New York : Pearson/Longman, c2005
LC Classification: P, PS
Additional Authors: Ventura, Gabriela Baeza
Notes: LCCN: 2004008654
ISBN: 9780321198433 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0321198433 (pbk.)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents: Native -- Introduction -- Poetry -- Taos Pueblo Indians : 700 strong according to Bobby's last census / Miguel Algarín -- el sarape de mi personalidad / Alurista -- Martín III / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Belonging / Rafael Campo -- Refugee ship / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Marina mother / Lucha Corpi -- Affirmations #3, take off your mask / Sandra María Esteves -- These days / Ray González -- Loisaida / Victor Hernández Cruz -- The hyphenated man / Carolina Hospital -- Lessons in semantics / Angela de Hoyos -- AmeRícan / Tato Laviera -- Legal alien / Pat Mora -- Ending poem / Rosario Morales, Aurora Levins Morales -- A lower East side poem / Miguel Piñero -- Wet camp / Alberto Álvaro Ríos -- I am America / Luis Omar Salinas -- Chicano dropout / Tino Villanueva -- Prose -- Secret Latina at large / Veronica Chambers -- Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- The Hammon and the beans / Américo Paredes -- Dichos / Patricia Preciado Martín -- Zoo Island / Tomás Rivera -- On becoming / Nelly Rosario -- Dallas / Rosaura Sánchez -- Senior picture day / Michelle Serros -- Prologue to Seven long times / Piri Thomas -- Birthday / Helena María Viramontes -- Desert vista / Richard Yañez -- Essay -- La Güera / Cherríe Moraga -- Exile / Benjamín Alire Sáenz -- Drama -- Los Vendidos / Luis Valdez --
Contents: Exile and immigration -- Introduction -- Poetry -- United States / Marjorie Agosín -- Nocturnal visits / Claribel Alegría -- América / Richard Blanco -- Nicaragua / Tomás Borge -- The Campesinos go down the roads / Pablo Antonio Cuadra -- Federico's ghost ; Revolutionary Spanish lesson / Martín Espada -- Self-portrait / Isaac Goldemberg -- The dog / Víctor Montejo -- Hymn of exile / José María Heredia -- Bilingual blues / Gustavo Pérez Firmat -- A song for Wall Street / Salomón de la Selva -- Prose -- All I thought about was Disneyland / Alicia Alarcón -- Snow from How the García girls lost their accents / Julia Alvarez -- Toward Patzún / Arturo Arias -- Immigrants / Aurora Levins Morales -- Prelude from Testimony : death of a Guatemalan village / Víctor Montejo -- The one-flower slippers from The little school / Alicia Partnoy -- Spared Angola / Virgil Suárez -- Essay -- The politics of Exile / Claribel Alegría -- Our America / José Martí -- Drama -- El súper / Iván Acosta --
Contents: Transcultural -- Introduction -- Poetry -- Somewhere between Houston and El Paso / Carolina Monsisváis -- Tango for the broom / Sandra Cisneros -- Huitlacoche crepes / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- The Illiterati / Tony Medina -- Night cruising / Radames Ortiz -- Las a-e-i-o-u's de los ums seeking tongues of migratin' letras que ain't no way hiding / Ruth Irupé Sanabria -- Spoken word poetry -- Intensidad - Ñ / Brenda Cárdenas -- Lengualistic algo / Olga Angelina García -- Cumbia de salvación / Leticia Hernández-Linares -- Jetties were the bridges I crossed / Nancy Mercado -- Peeping Tom-Tom girl / Marisela Norte -- My Name is not Rodriguez / Luis J. Rodríquez -- The seven African gods / Frank Varela -- The reinvention of zero / robertkarimi -- Prose -- Tino ; Piojos / Norma Cantú -- Aguantando / Junot Díaz -- La Quebrada / Rigoberto González -- Señoritas in love / Jaime Manrique -- Crossing the border from Diary of an undocumented worker / Ramón "Tianguis" Pérez -- Miami International Airport / Roberto Quesada -- Drama -- Simply María or The American dream / Josefina López -- Essay -- How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa -- Danger zone : cultural relations between Chicanos and Mexicans at the end of the century / Guillermo Gómez Peña -- Questions to consider -- Chronology
Physical Description: xx, 324 p. ; 24 cm
OCLC Number: 55000408
ISBN/ISSN: 9780321198433
0321198433

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