Author: Edward Rivera
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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The author (c.1939-2001) chronicles his family's journey from a small Puerto Rican village to New York City.
Author: Harold Augenbraum
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395765289
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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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.
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Category : Debates and debating
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Author: Margarite Fernandez Olmos
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313088624
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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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. Each chapter in this Critical Guide provides pertinent biographical background on the author as well as contextual information that aids in understanding the literary and cultural significance of the work. The most valuable component of the critical essays, the Analysis of Themes and Forms, helps the reader understand the thematic concerns raised by the work, particularly the recurring issues of language expression and cultural identity, assimilation, and intergenerational conflicts. Each essay is followed by specific suggestions for teaching the work with topics for classroom discussion. Further enhancing the value of this work as a teaching tool are the selected bibliographies of criticism, further reading, and other related sources that complete each chapter. Teachers will also find a Sample Course Outline of U.S. Latino Literature which serves as guide for developing a course on this important subject.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher:
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Category : Family farms
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Author: Denis Lynn Daly Heyck
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317796128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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This unique anthology highlights the diversity of Latino cultural expressions and points out the distinctive features of the three major Latino populations: Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban. It is organized around six central cultural issues: family, religion, community, the arts, (im)migration and exile, and cultural identity. Each chapter focuses on a particular theme by presenting readings from a variety of genres, including short stories, poems, essays, excerpts from novels, a play, photographs, even a few songs and recipes.
Author: James Jurinski
Publisher: ALI-ABA
ISBN: 9780831814144
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
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Author: Marisel C. Moreno
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813933315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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Adopting a comparative and multidisciplinary approach to Puerto Rican literature, Marisel Moreno juxtaposes narratives by insular and U.S. Puerto Rican women authors in order to examine their convergences and divergences. By showing how these writers use the trope of family to question the tenets of racial and social harmony, an idealized past, and patriarchal authority that sustain the foundational myth of la gran familia, she argues that this metaphor constitutes an overlooked literary contact zone between narratives from both sides. Moreno proposes the recognition of a "transinsular" corpus to reflect the increasingly transnational character of the Puerto Rican population and addresses the need to broaden the literary canon in order to include the diaspora. Drawing on the fields of historiography, cultural studies, and gender studies, the author defies the tendency to examine these literary bodies independently of one another and therefore aims to present a more nuanced and holistic vision of this literature.
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Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1560
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