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9780395765289

The Latino Reader

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    9780395765289

  • ISBN10:

    0395765285

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-03-26
  • Publisher: Mariner Books

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"The Latino Reader" presents the full history of this important American literary tradition, from its mid-sixteenth-century beginnings to the present day. The wide-ranging selections include works of history, memoir, letters, and essays, as well as fiction, poetry, and drama.

Table of Contents

Introduction: An American Literary Tradition xi(10)
Editors' Note xxi
Part I Encounters 1(62)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
4(13)
The Account [1542/1555]
5(12)
Inca, Garcilaso de la Vega
17(5)
Florida [1605]
18(4)
Gaspar Perez de Villagra
22(11)
The History of New Mexico [1610]
23(10)
Fray Mathias Saenz de San Antonio
33(9)
Lord, If the Shepherd Does Not Hear [1724]
34(8)
Unknown Author
42(14)
The Comanches [ca. 1780]
43(13)
Francisco Palou
56(7)
The Historic Account of the Life and Apostolic Work of the Venerable Fray Junipero Serra [1787]
57(6)
Part II Prelude 63(74)
Jose Maria Heredia
66(5)
Niagara [1824]
67(4)
Eulalia Perez
71(9)
An Old Woman Remembers [1877]
72(8)
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
80(18)
The Squatter and the Don [1885]
81(17)
Jose Marti
98(10)
A Vindication of Cuba [1889]
99(6)
Simple Verses [1891]
105(3)
Pachin Marin
108(6)
New York from Within [1892]
108(4)
In the Album of an Unknown Woman [1892]
112(1)
Improvisation [1892]
113(1)
Eusebio Chacon
114(18)
The Son of the Storm [1892]
114(18)
Unknown Author
132(5)
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez [ca. 1901]
133(4)
Part III Latino United States 137(362)
Leonor Villegas de Magnon
141(14)
The Rebel [ca. 1920]
142(13)
William Carlos Williams
155(4)
To Elsie [1923]
156(2)
All the Fancy Things [1927]
158(1)
Arthur A. Schomburg
159(6)
Jose Campeche, 1752-1809 [1934]
160(5)
Bernardo Vega
165(8)
Memoirs of Bernardo Vega [ca. 1944]
166(7)
Josephina Niggli
173(28)
Mexican Village [1945]
174(27)
Mario Suarez
201(7)
Cuco Goes to a Party [1947]
202(6)
Julia de Burgos
208(3)
Returning [1947]
209(1)
Farewell in Welfare Island [1953]
210(1)
Cleofas Jaramillo
211(9)
Romance of a Little Village Girl [1955]
212(8)
Pedro Juan Soto
220(16)
God in Harlem [1956]
221(15)
Jose Antonio Villarreal
236(12)
Pocho [1959]
237(11)
Americo Paredes
248(5)
The Hammon and the Beans [1963]
248(5)
John Rechy
253(12)
City of Night [1963]
254(11)
Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales
265(14)
I Am Joaquin [1967]
266(13)
Piri Thomas
279(6)
Down These Mean Streets [1967]
280(5)
Victor Hernandez Cruz
285(2)
Today Is a Day of Great Joy [1969]
286(1)
African Things [1973]
287(1)
Alurista
287(3)
el maguey en su desierto [1971]
288(1)
must be the season of the witch [1971]
289(1)
to be fathers once again [1971]
289(1)
Tomas Rivera
290(5)
...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him [1971]
291(4)
Rudolfo Anaya
295(12)
Bless Me, Ultima [1972]
296(11)
Oscar "Zeta" Acosta
307(10)
The Revolt of the Cockroach People [1973]
308(9)
Nicholasa Mohr
317(11)
Nilda [1973]
318(10)
Pedro Pietri
328(9)
Puerto Rican Obituary [1973]
329(8)
Miguel Pinero
337(14)
Short Eyes [1974]
338(11)
A Lower East Side Poem [1980]
349(2)
Dolores Prida
351(13)
Beautiful Senoritas [1977]
352(12)
Luis Valdez
364(14)
Zoot Suit [1978]
365(13)
Tato Laviera
378(4)
My Graduation Speech [1979]
379(1)
AmeRican [1985]
380(2)
Sandra Maria Esteves
382(3)
From the Commonwealth [1979]
383(1)
A la Mujer Borrinquena [1980]
384(1)
Lourdes Casal
385(2)
For Ana Veldford [1981]
385(2)
Lorna Dee Cervantes
387(4)
Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War Between the Races [1981]
387(2)
Visions of Mexico While at a Writing Symposium in Port Townsend, Washington [1981]
389(2)
Richard Rodriguez
391(14)
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez [1982]
392(13)
Edward Rivera
405(20)
Family Installments: Memories of Growing Up Hispanic [1982]
406(19)
Cherrie Moraga
425(7)
A Long Line of Vendidas [1983]
426(5)
Loving in the War Years [1983]
431(1)
Helena Maria Viramontes
432(6)
The Moths [1985]
433(5)
Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales
438(2)
Ending Poem [1986]
438(2)
Rolando Hinojosa
440(4)
Dona Sostenes [1987]
441(3)
Gloria Anzaldua
444(13)
Borderlands/La frontera: The New Mestiza [1987]
445(12)
Sandra Cisneros
457(11)
Woman Hollering Creek [1991]
457(11)
Cristina Garcia
468(11)
Dreaming in Cuban [1992]
469(10)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
479(9)
American History [1993]
479(8)
Guard Duty [1993]
487(1)
Oscar Hijuelos
488(11)
The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien [1993]
489(10)
Selected Additional Reading 499(4)
About the Editors 503

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