Secondary Sources:
Critical Articles and Books
focusing on Latino Literature

(Particularly helpful collections are in bold type)

#Alarcón, Norma. "The Sardonic Powers of the Erotic in the Work of Ana Castillo." Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writings and Critical Readings. Eds. Asunción Horno-Delgado, et al. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989. 94-107.

#Alegría, Fernando and Jorge Ruffinelli, eds. Paradise Lost or Gained?: The Literature of Hispanic Exile. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1990.

#Asunción Horno-Delgado, et al. Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writings and Critical Readings. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989.

#Bruce-Novoa. "Deconstructing the Dominant Patriarchal Text: Cecile Pineda's Narratives." Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writings and Critical Readings. Ed. Asunción Horno-Delgado, et al. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989. 72-81.

Retrospace: Collected Essays on Chicano Literature. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1990.

#Calderón, Héctor and José David Saldívar, eds. Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991.

#Castillo, Debra A. Talking Back: Toward a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992.

#Deaver, William O. Jr. "Raining Backwards: Colonization and the Death of a Culture." America's Review. Vol 21. #1 (Spring 1983): 112-118

#Febles, Jorge. "Risa, crisis y cornonación paródica: lo carnavalesco en La vida es un special $1.50 .75. Confluencia: Revista Hispanica de Cultura y Literatura. Fall 1988 Vol 3 #1 123-128.

#Fernandez, Ronald. Prisoners of Colonialism: The Struggle for Justice in Puerto Rico. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994.

#Flores, Angel. "Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction." Hispania 38 #2 (May 1955): 187-192.

#Flores, Juan. Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1993.

#Foster, David William, ed. Handbook of Latin American Literature. 2nd ed. New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1992.

#Genishi, Celia. "Codeswitching in Chicano Six-Year-Olds." in Latino Language and Communicative Behavior. Ed. Richard Durán. Norwood, New Jersey: ABLEX Pub. Co., 1981.

#Giordano, Jaime. "Hacia una definición del realismo en la novela hispanomericana contemporánea." Nueva narrativa hispanoamericana 1 (1971): 127-132.

#Gonzales-Berry, Erlinda and Santa Arias. "Latino Writing in the United States." Handbook of Latin American Literature, ed. David William Foster, 649-645. New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1992.

Rev. of Face, by Cecile Pineda. Americas Review Summer. 1987: 107-109.

#González-Wippler, Migene. Santeria: The Religion. 2nd. ed. St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications, 1994.

#Hernández Cruz, Victor. "Mountains in the North: Hispanic Writing in the U.S.A." Americas Review. Vol 14 Nos. 3-4 (Fall & Winter 1986): 110-114.

#Hernández, Guillermo E. Chicano Satire: A Study in Literary Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.

#Hererra-Sobek, María. ed. Beyond Stereotypes: Critical Analysis of Chicana Literature. Binghamton, New York: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1985.

and Helena María Viramontes, eds. Chicana Creativity and Criticism: Charting New Frontiers in American Literature. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1988.

#Hicks, Emily. Border Writing: The Multidimensional Text. Theory and History of Literature Series 80. Minneapolis and Oxford: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

#Horno-Delgado, Asunción, et al., eds. Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writings and Critical Ed. Richard Durán. Norwood, New Jersey: ABLEX Pub. Co., 1981.

#Johnson, David. "Face Value (An Essay on Cecile Pineda's Face)." America's Review 19 (Summer 1991): 73-93,

#Lattin, Vernon E., ed. Contemporary Chicano Fiction: A Critical Survey. Binghamton, NY: Bilingual Press / Editorial Bilingüe, 1986.

#Leal, Luis. Aztlán y Mexico: Perfiles literarios e históricos. Binghamton, N.Y.: Bilingual press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1985.

#McCracken, Ellen. "Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street: Community-Oriented Introspection and the Demystification of Patriarchal Violence." Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writings and Critical Readings. Ed. Asunción Horno-Delgado, et al. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989. 62-71.

#Nieto, Eva Margarita. "The Dialectics of Textual Interpolation in Ron Arias' The Road to Tamazunchale.: in Contemporary Chicano Fiction: A Critical Survey. Ed. Vernon E. Lattin. Binghamton: NY: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1986. Pp. 239-46.

#Ortega, Eliana. "Poetic Discourse of the Puerto Rican Woman in the U.S.: New Voices of Anacaonian Liberation." Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writings and Critical Readings. Ed. Asunción Horno-Delgado, et al. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989. 122-135.

#Ortiz, Rafael Cancel "The Language Conflict in Puerto Rican Literature." America's Review. 18 #2 (Summer 1990): 103-113.

#Perez Firmat, Gustavo. Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.

Literature and Liminality:Festive Readings in the Hispanic Tradition. Durham: Duke University Press, 1986.

#Quintana, Alvina E. "Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters: The Novelist as Ethnographer." Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology. Eds. Héctor Calderón and José David Saldívar. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991. 72-83.

#Rebolledo, Tey Diana. "Abuelitas: Mythology and Integration in Chicana Literature." Woman of her Word: Hispanic Women Write. Ed. Evangelina Vigil. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1987. 148-158.

Women Singing in the Snow. Tucson / London: University of Arizona Press, 1995.

#Rivero, Eliana S. "From Immigrants to Ethnics: Cuban Women Writers in the U.S." Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writings and Critical Readings. Ed. Asunción Horno-Delgado, et al. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989. 189-200.

"Hispanic Literature in the United States: Self-Image and Conflict." America's Review. 13 (1985): 173 -192.

(Re)Writing Sugarcane Memories: Cuban Americans and Literature." Paradise Lost or Gained?: The Literature of Hispanic Exile. Eds. Fernando Alegría and Jorge Ruffinelli. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1990. 164-182.

#Rocard, Marcienne. "The Remembering Voice in Chicana Literature." America's Review. 14 No. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1986): 153-154.

#Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown and Jerry W. Ward, Jr. eds. Redefining American Literary History. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1990.

#Saldívar, José David. Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991.

#Saldívar, Ramón. Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.

#Sánchez, Rosaura. Chicano Discourse: Socio-historic Perspectives. Rowley, MA: Newbury House Publishers, 1983.

"Discourses of Gender, Ethnicity and Class in Chicano Literature." America's Review. 20 (1992): 72-88.

"Ideological Discourses in Islas's The Rain God." In Calderón, Hector and José David Saldívar eds. Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture amd Ideology. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991. 114-126.

#Scott, Nina M. "The Politics of Language: Latina Writers in United States Literature and Curricula." Melus 19.1 (Spring 1994): 57-71.

#Thurston, Kay. "Barriers to the Self-Definition of the Chicana: Gina Valdés and There are no Madmen Here." Melus 19.4 (Winter 1994): 61-73.

#Vasquez, Mary S. "The Fantastic and the Grotesque in the Fiction of Roberto Fernández: The Case of Raining Backwards. Confluencia 1 (1990): 75-84.

"Parody, Intertexuality and Cultural Values in Roberto G. Fernández's Raining Backwards." America's Review. Vol 18. #2 (Summer 1990): 92-102.

#Weiss, Rachel and Alan West, eds. Being América: Essays on Art, Literature and Identity from Latin America. New York: White Wine Press, 1991.

#Zentella, Ana Celia. "Tá bien, You Could Answer Me en cualquier idioma: Puerto Rican Codeswitching in Bilingual Classrooms." Latino Language and Communicative Behavior. Ed. Richard P. Duran. Norwood, New Jersey: ABLEX Pub. Co., 1981

#Zimmerman, Marc. U.S. Latino Literature: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography. Chicago: MARCH/Abrazo Press, 1992.

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