Dossier: Chicanx Literature
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Although this inventory of historic and emergent Genízaro characters and themes in the Nuevomexicano literary imagination is abbreviated, it invites in-depth critical study of a scarcely known... -
Kirstin Valdez Quade’s collection of short stories Night at the Fiestas presents a set of stories about, primarily but not exclusively, Nuevomexicanas/os. These characters initially appe... -
Given the critical attention that Ana Castillo’s novel set in New Mexico So Far from God has received since its 1993 publication, the divergent reactions it evokes among Mexican American reader... -
A fistfight of paper on the ground, his helloas ancient as dinosaurs. Honeydewsbright as crayons. His donations to the sun,the backbreaking work of immigrants. Humanbattery. Decades of... -
Despite decadesof advertisementsI am not young. I am not white. -
The ghosts in my room sit on the dresser,crouch in my nightstand,kneel at my bedside begging to be heard –the story of the first kiss or the last,the journey of the first crossingand the digging of th... -
I would like this special section of Latin American Literature Today to be yet another indicator of the growing influence of Latinos in the U.S. Three facts underscore their growing impact. F...
