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A Luis Leal reader /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leal, Luis, 1907-2010
Other Authors: Stavans, Ilan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2007.
Series:Latino voices.
Subjects:
Mexican literature > History and criticism.
American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The day I was Luis Leal
  • In search of Aztlán
  • A historical perspective
  • The problem of identifying Chicano literature
  • Into the labyrinth
  • Truth-telling tongues
  • Lo real maravilloso in Nuevo México
  • The Spanish-language press
  • El paso y la huella
  • Bernardo de Balbuena
  • Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá
  • La Conquistadora
  • Félix Varela
  • Miguel Antonio Otero
  • Mariano Azuela
  • María Cristina Mena
  • José Rubén Romero
  • Pedro Henríquez Ureña
  • Octavio Paz
  • Juan Rulfo
  • Carlos Fuentes
  • José A. Montoya
  • Tomás Rivera
  • Américo Paredes
  • Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
  • Rudolfo Anaya
  • Sandra Cisneros
  • La Malinche
  • Other female archetypes
  • Mexico's centrifugal culture
  • Aspects of the Mexican novel
  • Magic realism
  • African influences
  • Tlatelolco, Tlatelolco
  • The ugly American
  • Octavio Paz and the chicano
  • Mirror, mirror
  • Beyond myths and borders.