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Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers » Read Now
by Bridget Kevane, Juanita N. Heredia. 168 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Embracing Chicana, Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican writers and writers descended from a combined US and Latin American heritage, Latina literature is one of the fastest growing and most exciting fields in fiction. This literature is characterised by revisionist views of recent history, a concern...
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Embracing Chicana, Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican writers and writers descended from a combined US and Latin American heritage, Latina literature is one of the fastest growing and most exciting fields in fiction. This literature is characterised by revisionist views of recent history, a concern with exile and borders, a blending of genres, and a complex understanding of the term feminist. In these ten interviews, Kevane and Heredia give writers the opportunity to talk about how they began to write, the craft of writing, the conjunction of life, art and politics, literary influences, and their goals as artists. Readers will meet Julia Alvarez, Denise Chávez, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferré, Cristina García, Nicholasa Mohr, Cherríe Moraga, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Esmeralda Santiago, and Helena María Viramontes. The writers' personal and literary journeys vividly portrayed in these interviews will enrich and enhance the readers' understanding of this exciting field. The volume also includes bibliographies of the writers' work.
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Linda Chavez-Thompson, in NACLA Report on the Americas » Read Now
by Linda Chavez-Thompson. 3 pgs.

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Chavez and the Farm Workers » Read Now
by Ronald B. Taylor. 342 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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U.S. Latino Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers » Read Now
by Harold Augenbraum, Margarite Olmos Fernandez. 216 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

In the past ten years, literature by U.S. Latinos has gained an extraordinary public currency and has engendered a great deal of interest among educators. Because of the increase in numbers of Latinos in their classrooms, teachers have recognized the benefits of including works by such important...
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In the past ten years, literature by U.S. Latinos has gained an extraordinary public currency and has engendered a great deal of interest among educators. Because of the increase in numbers of Latinos in their classrooms, teachers have recognized the benefits of including works by such important writers as Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, and Rudolfo Anaya in the curriculum. Without a guide, introducing courses on U.S. Latino literature or integrating individual works into the general courses on American Literature can be difficult for the uninitiated. While some critical sources for students and teachers are available, none are dedicated exclusively to this important body of writing. To fill the gap, the editors of this volume commissioned prominent scholars in the field to write 18 essays that focus on using U.S. Latino literature in the classroom. The selection of the subject texts was developed in conjunction with secondary school teachers who took part in the editors' course. This resultant volume focuses on major works that are appropriate for high school and undergraduate study including Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Latin Deli, Piri Thomas' Down These Mean Streets, and Cisneros' The House on Mango Street.
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Making Television: Authorship and the Production Process (Chap. 9 "Desilu, I Love Lucy, and the Rise of Network TV") » Read Now
by Robert J. Thompson, Gary Burns. 214 pgs.

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...This collection of essays on television authorship includes work of some of the most prominent scholars in television studies. Rather than assigning one author to...
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Claiming the Bittersweet Matrix: Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, and Adrienne Rich, in Critique » Read Now
by Nancy Corson Carter. 10 pgs.

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...del corazon describing a young girls growing up in an urban Hispanic neighborhood. And the third, Adrienne Rich Your Native...questions in such vein are to be asked, as we...
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Hispanic-American Writers » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 220 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights
-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers
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The Coil of Life: The Story of the Great Discoveries in the Life Sciences (Chap. 15 "Ochoa and Kornberg: The Synthesis of DNA and RNA") » Read Now
by Ruth Moore. 418 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...possible, Bichat went to Lyons to study medicine with the famous Dr. Marc Antoine Petit. During his first year there study was...professor of chemistry at the University of...
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What Good is Literature in Our Time?, in American Literary History » Read Now
by Rudolfo Anaya. 7 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...independence ensued not only in the black community and with womens liberation, the struggle also took place everywhere. We Mexican Americans in the Southwest US called it...
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Antonia Hernandez: The Leading Latina Legal Eagle for Civil Rights, in Civil Rights Journal » Read Now
by Civil Rights Journal. 5 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...in policies that improve our lives as Americans. Wasnt it George Orwell who said "To...here illegally and taking jobs away from Americans? Todays undocumented workers have...