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Additional authors

1. Augenbraum, Harold
2. Fernández Olmos, Margarite

Description

1. xx, 502 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

1. An anthology of writings by Latino authors, spanning a period from the mid-sixteenth century to the late twentieth-century and including history, memoirs, letters, essays, fiction, poetry, and drama.

Subject

1. American literature > Hispanic American authors
2. Exiles' writings, Spanish American > Translations into English
3. Spanish American literature > Translations into English
4. Hispanic Americans > Literary collections
5. Exiles > Literary collections

Genre/Form

1. Literary collections
2. Translations
3. Autobiographies
4. Personal correspondence
5. Essays
6. Fiction
7. Poetry
8. Drama
9. Literature

Contents

1. Pt.1. Encounters. The account / Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca -- Florida / Inca, Garcilaso de la Vega -- The history of New Mexico / Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá -- Lord, if the shephard does not hear / Fray Mathias Sáenz de San Antonio -- The Comanches / Unknown author -- The historic account of the life and apostolic work of the venerable Fray Junípero Serra / Francisco Palóu -- Pt.2. Prelude. Niagra / José María Heredia -- An old woman remembers / Bulalia Pérez -- The squatter and the Don / María Amparo Ruiz de Burton -- A vindication of Cuba ; Simple verses / José Marti -- New York from within ; In the album of an unknown woman ; Improvisation / Pachín Marín -- The son of the storm / Eusebio Chacón -- The ballad of Gregorio Cortez / Unknown author --
2. (cont.) Pt.3. Latino United States. The rebel / Leonor Villegas de Magnón -- To Elsie ; All the fancy things / William Carlos Williams -- José Campeche, 1752-1809 / Arthur A. Schomburg -- Memoirs of Bernardo Vega / Bernardo Vega -- Mexican village / Josephina Niggli -- Cuco goes to a party / Mario Suárez -- Returning ; Farewell in Welfare Island / Julia de Burgos -- Romance of a little village girl / Cleofas Jaramillo -- God in Harlem / Pedro Juan Soto -- Pocho / José Antonio Villarreal -- The Hammon and the beans / Américo Paredes -- City of night / John Rechy -- I am Joaquín / Rodolfo " Corky" Gonzáles -- Down these mean streets / Piri Thomas -- Today is a day of great joy ; African things / Victor Hernández Cruz -- El maguey en su desierto ; Must be the season of the witch ; To be fathers once again / Alurista -- ...And the earth did not devour him / Tomás Rivera -- Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya -- The revolt of the cockroach people / Oscar "Zeta" Acosta --
3. (cont.) Nilda / Nicholasa Mohr -- Puerto Rican obituary / Pedro Pietri -- Short eyes ; A Lower East side poem / Miguel Piñero -- Beautiful señoritas / Dolores Prida -- Zoot suit / Luis Valdez -- My graduation speech ; AmeRícan / Tato Laviera -- From the commonwealth ; A la mujer Borrinqueña / Sandra María Esteves -- For Ana Veldford / Lourdes Casal -- Poem for the young white man who asked me how I, an intelligent, well-read person, could believe in the war between the races ; Visons of Mexico while at a writing symposium in Port Townsend, Washington / Lorna Dee Cervantes --
4. (cont.) Hunger of memory : the education of Richard Rodriguez / Richard Rodriguez -- Family installments : memories of growing up Hispanic / Edward Rivera -- A long line of Vendidas ; Loving in the war years / Cherríe Moraga -- The moths / Helena María Viramontes -- Ending poem / Rosario Morales and Auroroa Levins Morales -- Doña Sóstenes / Rolando Hinojosa -- Borderlands/La Frontera : the New Mestiza / Gloria Anzaldúa -- Woman hollering creek / Sandra Cisneros -- Dreaming in Cuban / Cristina Garcia -- American history ; Guard duty / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- The fourteen sisters of Emilo Montez O'Brien / Oscar Hijuelos.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. "A Marc Jaffe Book."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [499]-502).

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain