Research Catalog

Title

A Luis Leal reader / edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans.

Author

Leal, Luis, 1907-2010.

Publication

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Stavans, Ilan.

Description

xv, 461 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Bringing together a representative selection of Leal's writings from the past sixty years, this volume, edited by the distinguished cultural critic Ilan Stavans, is at once a wide-ranging introduction to the most influential scholar of Latino literature and a critical history of the field as it emerged and developed through the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Latino voices

Uniform Title

Latino voices

Subject

• Leal, Luis
• Mexican literature > History and criticism
• American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism
• American literature > Mexican American authors
• Mexican literature
• Literatur
• Lateinamerika
• Chicanos

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9780810124189
• 0810124181

LCCN

2007012848

OCLC

• ocn122291628
• 122291628
• SCSB-1446816

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library