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Hispanics in the United States
History, Hispanic Heritage,
Literature, The Arts, Reference, Politics, Economics
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Description: This essential reference covers Hispanic literature in the United States from the Spanish colonial period to the present. A detailed overview of the history of Hispanic literature in the United States and a separate survey of Hispanic drama provide researchers and general readers with indispensable information and insight into Hispanic literature. An extensive chronology traces the development of Hispanic literature and culture in the United States from 1492 to 2002, providing the context within which such Hispanic writers as Sandra Cisneros, Rodolfo Anaya, and Oscar Hijuelos have worked. Biographical entries describe the careers, importance, and major works of notable Hispanic novelists, poets, and playwrights writing in English or Spanish, and a comprehensive, up-to-date bibliography lists primary resources on Hispanic literature in the United States. Essays describe in detail the most important past and current trends in Hispanic literature, including bilingualism, Chicano literature, children's literature, exile literature, folklore, immigrant literature, Nuyorican literature, poetry, and women and feminism in Hispanic literature. Another section discusses the history and current trends of Hispanic publishing in the United States. This reference features more than 100 exceptional illustrations of writers, plays in performance, and covers of first editions of important works. Table of Contents: Subject Category: Literature |
Herencia
The Anthology of Hispanic
Literature of the United States
Edited by NICOLAS KANELLOS
A major anthology of Hispanic writing in the
United States, ranging from the early Spanish explorers right up to the present
day
Herencia (meaning "inheritance" or "heritage")
is the first anthology to bring together literature from the entire history of Hispanic
writing in the United States, from the age of exploration to the present. The
product of a ten-year project involving hundreds of scholars nationwide, Herencia
is the most comprehensive literary collection available, spanning over three
centuries and including writers from all the major Hispanic
ethnic communities, and writing from diverse genres.
Here is the voice of the conqueror and the conquered, the revolutionary and the reactionary, the native and the uprooted or landless. Of course, readers will find pieces by such leading writers as Piri Thomas, Luis Valdez, Isabel Allende, Oscar Hijuelos, and Reinaldo Arenas. But what really distinguishes this anthology is its historical depth and its rich, complex portrait of Hispanic literature in the United States. Beginning with Cabeza de Vaca's account of his explorations in the New World, the anthology includes a passage from La Florida, a narrative historical poem of 22,000 verses, written by Franciscan friar Alonso de Escobedo; an attack on Mexican stereotypes in the nascent movie industry, written by Nicasio Idar, editor of Laredo's La Cronica; and an essay about Coney Island written by revolutionary Jose Marti.
Embracing Chicano, Nuyorican, Cuban American, and Latino writings, the voices
of immigrants and the voices of exiles, Herencia makes a vital
contribution to our understanding not only of Hispanic
writing in the United States, but also of the great contribution Hispanics
have made to the United States.
"The publication of Herencia marks the formal birth in the
academy of an entire genre of literature. For an apt comparison, we would have
to turn to comparable anthologies of American literature first published in the
nineteenth century. Nicolas Kanellos has made a major contribution to redefining
even what it means to speak of 'American' literature." --Henry Louis Gates,
Jr.
"0nce in a while, a book comes along which topples institutional
thinking and set beliefs. Herencia is such a book! Nicolas Kanellos's
brilliant introduction is more than that. It is a manifesto. A turning-point
document of American literary history."--Ishmael Reed
"Finally a major, out-reaching, reliable map of the Hispanic
experience in the U.S. With impressive range, texture, and resonance, Herencia
illuminates the history, emotions, and meaning of Hispanic-American
life. Because of his long-standing devotion to this literature, only Nicolas
Kanellos could have been able to accomplish this task with such authority and
care. As a living memory, this magnificent book opens its pages to the
cross-cultural language of our best future."--Julio Ortega, Professor of Hispanic
Studies, Brown University
"Libraries should own a copy of Herencia; teachers should
incorporate it into classes on American and U.S. Hispanic
literature, history, politics, or cultural diversity; students should turn to it
for authoritative excerpts of Hispanic writing; and
general readers should browse Herencia for its sheer insight into the
literary and historical legacy of contemporary Hispanic
culture."--Hispanic Outlook
"Ten years in the making, this anthology is an unprecedented collection
of writing in North America from the age of the Spanish explorers in the 16th
century to the present.... Herencia is absolutely indispensable."--Library
Journal
“Kanellos has mined literary gold from the rich vein of contemporary American Hispanic fiction. These are entertaining yet powerful works of short fiction.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Cuban American
Theater
Rodolfo J. Cortina
Arte Público Press
1992, 280 pages, Trade Paperback, ISBN 1-55885-020-1 LC 91-9898, $12.95
Cuban American Theater contains plays by the leading figures in Cuban American drama. The plays included are the following: A Little Something to Ease the Pain, by Rene Aloma; Your Better Half, by Matías Montes Huidobro; Martínez, by Leopoldo Hernández; Birds Without Wings, by Renaldo Ferradas; Once Upon a Dream, by Miguel González-Pando; and With All and for the Good of All, by Uva Clavijo. Here are presented dramatically the themes of exile, culture clash, the generation gap and discrimination, along with the full gamut of concerns about art, theater and life itself. In all respects—linguistic, artistic and philosophical—Cuban American Theater is the first of its kind, a truly historical and groundbreaking document.
Cuentos hispanos de
los Estados Unidos
Julián Olivares
Arte Público Press
1998 (Second Edition), 228 pages, Trade Paperback
ISBN 1-55885-260-3, $16.95
The first comprehensive collection of short stories written in Spanish by Hispanic authors of the United States, including the full range of cultural expressions from Cuban American, Mexican American, Puerto Rican and other Hispanic authors. Included are stories by Roberta Fernández, Roberto Fernández, Rolando Hinojosa, Elías Miguel Muñoz, Rosaura Sánchez, Tomás Rivera, Rima de Vallbona, Alfredo Villanueva-Collado and many others. Informative introductions and a glossary of dialectical terms are included to make the book appropriate for students. Especially recommended as a reader for high school and college Spanish and U.S. Hispanic literature classes.
Recovering the U.S.
Hispanic Literary Heritage, Vol. I
Ramón Gutiérrez and Genaro Padilla
Arte Público Press
1993, 318 Pages, Clothbound, ISBN 1-55885-063-5, $34.95
Trade Paperback, ISBN 1-55885-058-9, $17.95
Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage is a compendium of articles by the leading scholars on Hispanic literary history of the United States. The anthology functions to acquaint both expert and neophyte with the work that has been done to date on this literary history, to outline the agenda for recovering the lost Hispanic literary heritage and to discuss the pressing questions of canonization, social class, gender and identity that must be addressed in restoring the lost or inaccessible history and literature of any people.
Recovering the
U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Vol. II
Erlinda Gonzales-Berry and Chuck Tatum
Arte Público Press
1996, 296 Pages, Clothbound, ISBN 1-55885-139-9, $34.95
This second volume in the series contains articles by the leading scholars on Hispanic literary history of the United States given at the annual convention on Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage. The articles in this volume are in five sections: The Recovery Project Comes of Age; Assimilation, Accommodation or Resistance?; History in Literature/Literature in History; Writing the Revolution; and Recovering the Creation of Community.
Recovering the
U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume III
María Herrera-Sobek and Virginia Sánchez
Korrol
Arte Público Press
1998, 320 Pages, Clothbound, ISBN 1-55885-251-4, $39.95
This third volume of academic essays on recovering the Hispanic literary heritage of the United States features 27 articles by leading scholars. It addresses the broad topics of “Rewriting the Present: Nineteenth-Century Historical Novels”; “Women’s Voices: The Construction of Ethnic Gender Identities”; “Chroniclers, Ethnographers, and Historians”; “Identity and Affirmation: Contextualizing U.S. Hispanic Literature”; and “Using Historical, Archival, and Oral Sources.” Editors María Herrera-Sobek and Virginia Sánchez Korrol also contribute a unifying introduction.The Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage project is an ongoing and comprehensive national program to locate, identify, preserve, and disseminate the literary contributions of U.S. Hispanics from the colonial era through 1960. As a result of this coordinated effort, hundreds of thousands of literary works—including essays, autobiographies, diaries, and letters—are becoming accessible to scholars, students, and other readers, broadening and enriching the academic curriculum.
Recovering
the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume IV
Jose
Aranda Jr (Editor), Silvio Torres-Saillant (Editor)
Arte Público Press
Nov. 2002, 360 Pages, Clothbound, ISBN 1-55885-361-8, $29.95
"A deft appraisal of the interpretive paradigms governing both Anglo
American and Chicana/o literature. Direct, unadorned, and clear prose and
even-toned yet uncompromising critical assessments." —Anne E. Goldman,
author of Continental Divides: Revisioning American Literature
"It brings into focus a totally new perspective on Chicano and Anglo
American literature . . . a unique view." —María Herrera-Sobek, editor
of Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage
Most readers and critics view Mexican American writing as a subset of
American literature—or at best as a stream running parallel to the main
literary current. José Aranda now reexamines American literary history from the
perspective of Chicano/a studies to show that Mexican Americans have had a key
role in the literary output of the United States for one hundred fifty years.
In this bold new look at the American canon, Aranda weaves the threads of
Mexican American literature into the broader tapestry of Anglo American writing,
especially its Puritan origins, by pointing out common ties that bind the two
traditions: narratives of persecution, of immigration, and of communal crises,
alongside chronicles of the promise of America. Examining texts ranging from María
Amparo Ruiz de Burton's 1872 critique of the Civil War, Who Would Have
Thought It?, through the contemporary autobiographies of Richard Rodriguez
and Cherríe Moraga, he surveys Mexican American history, politics, and
literature, locating his analyses within the context of Chicano/a cultural
criticism of the last four decades.
When We Arrive integrates Early American Studies and Chicano/a Studies
into a comparative cultural framework by using the Puritan connection to shed
new light on dominant images of Chicano/a narrative, such as Aztlán and the
borderlands. Aranda explores the influence of a nationalized Puritan ethos on
nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers of Mexican descent, particularly upon
constructions of ethnic identity and aesthetic values. He then frames the rise
of contemporary Chicano/a literature within a critical body of work produced
from the 1930s through the 1950s, one that combines a Puritan myth of origins
with a literary history in which American literature is heralded as the product
and producer of social and political dissent.
Aranda's work is a virtual sourcebook of historical figures, texts, and ideas
that revitalizes both Chicano/a studies and American literary history. By
showing how a comparative study of two genres can produce a more integrated
literary history for the United States, When We Arrive enables critics
and readers alike to see Mexican American literature as part of a broader
tradition and establishes for its writers a more deserving place in the American
literary imagination.
José F. Aranda Jr. has taught Chicano/a and American literature at
Rice University since 1994.
When We Arrive
A New Literary History of Mexican America
José F. Aranda, Jr.
256 pp. / 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 / 2003
University of Arizona Press
Cloth (0-8165-2141-7) $40.00s
Mexico and the Hispanic Southwest in American Literature In his groundbreaking work With the Ears of Strangers, Robinson presented a
definitive documentation of the stereotype of the Mexican in American
literature. This revision extends the scope to Chicano literature in "a
book which should be read by every person wishing to gain a better understanding
of the 'American' Southwest. There is not a better introduction to the
subject."--Western American Literature
Cecil
Robinson.
Revised edition of With the Ears of Strangers
391 pp. / 6 x 9 / 1977
University of Arizona Press
Paper (0-8165-0593-4) $20.95s
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The
Hispanic Connection
Spanish and
Spanish-American Literature in the Arts of the World
Zenia Sacks DaSilva
Prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University
Book Code: C8090
ISBN: 0-275-98090-1
Praeger Publishers
Publication Date:
January 30, 2004
Series Title: Contributions to the
Study of World Literature
Series Number: 122
Description: DaSilva draws together key essays dealing with the span of Spanish and Latin American arts, ranging from literature, music, film, and ballet to painting.
The selections center on ten basic themes: First, the early Icons of Spain; second, the uses of Don Quixote from operas to painting; third, Don Juan is given a similar treatment, with theater, film, and ballet in addition to literature and opera; fourth, an examination of areas of fusion of Spanish and Mexican culture; fifth, Spanish Romantics in Opera and Ballet; sixth, modern writers whose work appears in musical transcription; seventh, modern writers whose novels appear in film; eighth, an examination of works that parody earlier pieces; ninth, a survey of the interrelationship between painting and its literary sources; tenth, a look at the variegated artistic peregrinations of such contemporaries as Marquez, Puig, Skarmeta, and others. Scholars and researchers involved with the scope of Spanish and Spanish American arts will find this collection of particular value.
Table of Contents:
Icons of Early Spain
The Universal Don Quixote
The Peripatetic Don Juan
Point of Contact: New Spain
Spanish Romantics et al. in Opera and Ballet
Modern Writers in Musical Transcription
From Novel to Silver Screen
Texts Intertwined
Word Pictures and Stroke of Brush
The Pointed Pen at Large
Subject Category: Literature
Sub-Category: World Literature
LC Card Number: 2003046395
LCC Class: PQ6041
Dewey Class: 860
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