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BOOKS ABOUT U.S. LATINA/O CULTURE AND LITERATUREGarcia, Juan Ed. Mexican Americans in the 1990s: Politics, Policies and Perceptions. Tucson: U Of Arizona, 1998.Garcia, Mario T. Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona. Berkeley & Los Angeles: U of CA P, 1994...
In Latin American literature, we have recommendations of the best Cuban novels, Mexican novels, Colombian novels as well as the best novels from Latin America as a whole. For Australasia, we have the best Australian novels and Australian crime fiction. We also have selections specifically on the...
Mexican-born Juan Ruiz de Alarcón struck a distinctive note. His 20 plays were sober, studied, and imbued with serious moral purpose, and his Verdad sospechosa (1634; “The Truth Suspected”) inspired the great French dramatist Pierre Corneille’s Menteur (1643). Corneille’s famous Le Cid ...
they are sending to Tucson donated copies of books about Mexican-American history and culture banned by the school district there. Occupiers are also publishing their own texts – just assome public librariesare responding to the commodification of culture by opening “maker” spaces for their commu...
Juan Felipe Herrera is an American poet, author, and activist of Mexican descent who became the first Hispanic American to serve as U.S. poet laureate. He is known for his often-bilingual and autobiographical poems on immigration, Chicano identity, and l
“based on the perceptions of Mexican people in the receiving context.” Her 2015 study found that these perceptions tended “to be favorable in terms of generating employment and contributing to the community; and unfavorable in terms of rising costs of living and some changes in local culture....
in experiencing this garden and the rich culture of Mexico. Within the book the abundant garden is interwoven on the page with decorative threads from Mexican embroidery and feather work. Patterns of leaves are echoed by cut paper craft whilst the delicate encrustation of flora and fauna is enri...
The most distinguishedcompositionto issue from these endeavours wasGrandeza mexicana(1604; “Mexican Greatness” or “The Magnificence of Mexico City”), a long poem in praise of Mexico City byBernardo de Balbuena. A highly elaborate piece, Balbuena’s poem celebrates Mexico City as the crossroads...
Another outstanding book about the Mexican-American War, this volume focuses on the war as a whole, from its beginnings in Texas and Washington to its conclusion in Mexico City. Battles are described in detail—but not too much detail, because such descriptions can get tedious. Eisenhower descri...