The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature
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Ilan Stavans (General Editor, Amherst College), Edna Acosta-Belén (Editor, University at Albany, SUNY), Harold Augenbraum (Editor, National Book Foundation), María Herrera-Sobek (Editor, University of California, Santa Barbara), Rolando Hinojosa (Editor, University of Texas, Austin), Gustavo Pérez Firmat (Editor, Columbia University)
A dazzling and definitive compendium of the Latino literary tradition.
This groundbreaking Anthology includes the work of 201 Latino writers from Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban-American, and Dominican-American traditions, as well as writing from other Spanish-speaking countries. Under the general editorship of award-winning cultural critic Ilan Stavans, The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature traces four centuries of writing, from letters to the Spanish crown by sixteenth-century conquistadors to the cutting-edge expressions of twenty-first-century cartoonistas and artists of reggaetón. In six chronological sections—Colonization, Annexation, Acculturation, Upheaval, Into the Mainstream, and Popular Traditions—the anthology encompasses diverse genres, and it features writers such as José Martí, William Carlos Williams, Julia Alvarez, Oscar Hijuelos, Cristina García, Piri Thomas, Esmeralda Santiago, and Junot Díaz. Thirteen years in the making, The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature sheds new light on "nuestra América" through a gathering of writing unprecedented in scope and vitality.
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“This book is an instant classic—a groundbreaking work in the making for thirteen years! There is no America without Latino doings and sufferings. And there is no American literature without Latino voices and visions!” — Cornel West, Princeton University
“The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature will be for Latinos what The Norton Anthology of African American Literature has been for African Americans: a celebration of a culture that has been yearning to sing itself into the canon.” — Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard University
“Nowhere else can scholars, teachers, and students find such a broad-ranging and accessible collection. . . . A crucial and eminently useful resource for any reader hoping to understand the stunning diversity of Latina/o experience and expression in the United States.” — Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, University of Michigan
“Imaginatively conceived, painstakingly executed, stunningly broad, profoundly stirring, endlessly engaging, this book can change the way the world thinks about America, and the way Americans think about themselves.” — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, University of Notre Dame
Comprehensive, with 201 Writers from Diverse Genres
Genres include poetry, short fiction, drama, novels, manifestos, memoirs, journals, and letters. Two novels and three plays are included in their entirety.
Contemporary Emphasis; Historical Breadth
Most of the anthology (2,000 of 2,500 pages) is devoted to literature since 1945, a balance that mirrors the dramatic growth of Latino writing in recent decades. However, The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature also provides crucial historical background through a wealth of earlier writing, some of it never before translated or anthologized.
Popular Dimensions
Because the roots of Latino culture reach back to tribal raconteurs of pre-Columbian times, The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature includes a segment on popular traditions as they are spoken, sung, performed, and cartooned. The anthology contains selections from graphic novels, teatro popular, and popular music—salsa by Celia Cruz, meringue, corridos (Mexican ballads) and narcocorridos (ballads about the exploits of drug traffickers), Latin pop by Ricky Martin—as well as traditional folktales, ballads, sayings, and jokes.
Trusted Norton Anthology Apparatus
Carefully prepared section introductions, author headnotes, annotations, maps, bibliographies, and appendixes—a chronology, a selection of historical documents, and a cluster of influential essays by Latin American writers—help students understand and enjoy the selections. Two tables of contents—by chronology and by national subgroup—give instructors increased flexibility in designing their courses.
ALTERNATE TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: THE SEARCH FOR WHOLENESS
COLONIZATION: 1537–1810
FRAY BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS CASAS (1484–1566)
- The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account
- Hispaniola
- That Part of the Mainland Called Florida
ÁLVAR NÚÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA (ca. 1490–ca. 1560)
- Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition
- Chapter 1: When the Fleet Left Spain and the Men Who
Went with It - Chapter 2: How the Governor Came to Xagua and Brought a
Pilot with Him - Chapter 3: How We Arrived in Florida
- Chapter 4: How We Went to the Interior
- Chapter 19: How the Indians Separated Us
- Chapter 20: How We Fled
- Chapter 21: How We Cured Several Sick People
- Chapter 22: How the Following Day They Brought Other
Sick People - Chapter 25: How Ready the Indians Are with Weapons
- Chapter 26: On Nations and Languages
FRAY MARCOS DE NIZA (ca. 1495–1558)
- From Narrative of Fray Marcos de Niza
HERNANDO DE SOTO (ca. 1496–1542)
- Letter of Hernando de Soto at Tampa Bay to the Justice and
Board of Magistrates in Santiago de Cuba
PEDRO CASTAÑEDA DE NÁJERA (ca. 1512–death unknown)
- Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado
- Chapter 9: Of How the Army Started from Culiacán and the
Arrival of the General at Cíbola, and of the Army at Señora
and of Other Things That Happened - Chapter 15: Of Why Tiguex Revolted, and How They Were
Punished, without Being to Blame for It
JUAN DE CASTELLANOS (1522–1607)
- Revolt of the Borinqueños
“EL INCA” GARCILASO DE LA VEGA (ca. 1539–1616)
- The Florida of the Inca
- Book 2, Part 1
- Chapter 24: How They Seized Vitachuco. The Outbreak
of the Battle Which Occurred between the Spaniards
and the Indians - Chapter 25: The Gradual Surrender of the Conquered
Indians, and the Constancy of Seven of Them
- Book 3
- Chapter 10: The Mistress of Cofachiqui Comes to Talk with
the Governor, Offering Him Both Provisions and Passage
for His Army
SEBASTIÁN VIZCAÍNO (1548–1624)
- Diary of Sebastián Vizcaíno
- Chapter 11: Departure from the Bay of the Eleven Thousand
Virgins and Arrival at the Port of San Diego - Chapter 12: Departure from the Port of San Diego and Arrival
at the Island of Santa Catalina
JUAN DE OÑATE (1550–1626)
- Letter Written by Don Juan de Oñate from New Mexico to the
Viceroy, the Count of Monterey, on March 2, 1599 - Account of the Discovery of the Buffalo [Written by Juan
Gutiérrez Bocanegra, Oñate’s Secretary]
GASPAR PÉREZ DE VILLAGRÁ (ca. 1555–1620)
- The History of New Mexico
FRAY EUSEBIO FRANCISCO KINO (1645–1711)
- [Memoir of Pimería Alta]
- From Book 1: First Entry into Pimería, and the Beginnings
of Its Spiritual and Temporal Conquest, and of Its
Conversion to Our Holy Catholic Fait - Chapter 1: Because of the Suspension of the Conquest
and Conversion of California, Two Alms Are Asked for and
Obtained from the Royal Treasury for Two Missionary
Fathers for This Coast and Mainland Nearest to
California
- Chapter 2: Royal Provision and Royal Cédula Which Favor
the New Conversions - Chapter 3: My Arrival at These Missions of Sonora, and
My First Entry into This Pimería, with the Father Visitor,
Manuel Gonzales - Chapter 4: Expedition to San Ygnacio de Caborica, San Joseph
de Los Himiris, and Nuestra Señora de Los Remedios - Chapter 5: First Opposition Experienced in This New
Conversion - Chapter 6: Second Opposition and Discord Sown in Pimería
- Book 2: Visit and Triennium of the Father Visitor Juan María
Salvatierra, 1690, 1691, 1692 - Chapter 7: Second and Third Expeditions to the Sea of
California - Chapter 8: Expedition or Mission to the North and
Northwest for More than One Hundred Leagues,
as Far as to the Rio Grande and the Casa Grande, and
the Discovery of the Two New Nations, the Opa and
the Cocomaricopa
- Book 3: Arrival of the Venerable Father Francisco Xavier Saeta
at These New Conversions; His Apostolic Fervor, Work,
Zeal, and Holy Letters; His Glorious, Innocent Death; and
Various Letters Prophetic of the Great Fruit of These
Conversions - Chapter 8: Last Letter of Most Tender Farewell from the
Venerable Father - Chapter 9: Concerning Three Other Murders Committed
in San Pedro del Tubutama - Chapter 10: Happy and Glorious Death of the Venerable
Father Francisco Xavier Saeta and of His Four Servants,
and the Plundering of His House - Chapter 11: Expedition of the Garrison of This Province of
Sonora to Punish the Delinquents and to Remove the
Body of the Venerable Father - Chapter 12: Second and New Expedition of the Garrison
and New and Greater Disturbance than Before 128
FRAY JUNÍPERO SERRA (1713–1784)
- Letter to Fray Juan Andrés
- Letter to Francisco Carlos de Croix
FRAY JUAN CRESPI (1721–1782)
- Letter to Fray Francisco Palóu
JUAN BAUTISTA DE ANZA (1736–1788)
- From Diary of Governor de Anza’s Expedition against the
Comanche Nation, August 15–September 10, 1779
ANNEXATIONS: 1811–1898
FÉLIX VARELA (1787–1853)
- Letters to Elpidio
- Final Observations on the Humor of Irreligious Masks
- Civil Religion in the United States
- On the Quakers
EULALIA PÉREZ (ca. 1780–death unknown)
ANTONIO MARÍA OSIO Y HIGUERA (1800–1878)
- The History of Alta California
GASPAR BETANCOURT CISNEROS (1803–1866)
JOSÉ MARÍA HEREDIA (1803–1839)
FRONTIER MEMOIRS
JUAN NEPOMUCENO SEGUÍN (1806–1890)
- From Personal Memoirs of John N. Seguín, 1834–42
JOSÉ POLICARPO RODRÍGUEZ (1829–1914)
- The Old Guide
- Chapter 1: Boyhood Days
- Chapter 2: Surveying
ANDREW GARCÍA (1855?–1943)
- Tough Trip through Paradise 1878–1879
- Chapter 34: Murder of John Hays
SOUTHWESTERN NEWSPAPER POETRY
JUAN B. HIJAR Y JARO (dates unknown)
J. M. VIGIL (dates unknown)
JOSÉ RÓMULO RIBERA (birth unknown–1917)
LUIS A. TORRES (dates unknown)
LUIS TAFOYA aka X.X.X. (1851–1922)
- Same as Usual
- To New Mexico
RAMÓN EMETERIO BETANCES (1827–1898)
- Arriba, Puerto Ricans!
- You Shall Be Free
- Remembrances of a Revolutionary
- [Against Spanish Despotism]
- Tenth of October
- Realized Dream
MARÍA AMPARO RUIZ DE BURTON (1832–1895)
- The Squatter and the Don
- Chapter 1
- Squatter Darrell Reviews the Past
- The Don’s View of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
EUGENIO MARÍA DE HOSTOS (1839–1903)
- League of Puerto Rican Patriots
- Fragment from Diary
LOLA RODRÍGUEZ DE TIÓ (1843–1924)
- The Song of Borinquen
- A Cuba
SOTERO FIGUEROA (1851–1923)
- Speech Confirming the Proclamation of the Cuban
- Cubans and Puerto Ricans
JOSÉ MARTÍ (1853–1895)
- Coney Island
- Love in the City
- The Charleston Earthquake
- Two Homelands
- Our America
MANUEL M. SALAZAR (1854–1911)
- The Story of a Wayfarer, or Gervacio and Aurora
LUIS MUÑOZ RIVERA (1859–1916)
- Northward Ho!
- Speech Given to the House of Representatives
MIGUEL ANTONIO OTERO JR. (1859–1944)
- My Nine Years as Governor of the Territory of New Mexico,
1897–1906 - From Chapter 8: The Folsom Train Robberies
FRANCISCO GONZALO “PACHÍN” MARÍN (1863–1897)
- New York from Within: One Aspect of Its Bohemian Life
- The Rag
FABIO FIALLO (1866–1942)
- Plenilunio
- Golgotha Rose
- Profane Rhyme
JOSÉ ESCOBAR (dates unknown)
- Literary Progress in New Mexico
JESSE PÉREZ (1870–1927)
JULIO G. ARCE aka JORGE ULICA (1870–1926)
THE CHACÓN FAMILY
EUSEBIO CHACÓN (1869–1948)
FELIPE MAXIMILIANO CHACÓN (1873–1949)
- To Señora Adelina Otero-Warren
- Don Julio Berlanga
ISIDORO ARMIJO (1871–1949)
ACCULTURATION: 1899–1945
ARTHUR A. SCHOMBURG (1874–1938)
- The Negro Digs Up His Past
- Juan Latino
LEONOR VILLEGAS DE MAGNÓN (1876–1955)
CLEOFAS M. JARAMILLO (1878–1956)
- Romance of a Little Village Girl
- Chapter 3: Pleasant Outings
- Chapter 20: The Territory Becomes a State
DANIEL VENEGAS (ca. 1880–ca. 1935)
- The Adventures of Don Chipote: or, A Sucker’s Tale
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
ADELINA “NINA” OTERO-WARREN (1881–1965)
- Old Spain in Our Southwest
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883–1963)
- Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!
- Apology
- Sub Terra
- In the American Grain
- The Fountain of Eternal Youth
- Autobiography
- Chapter 4: Pop and Mother
BERNARDO VEGA (1885–1965)
- Puerto Rican Migration to the United States
- Memoirs of Bernardo Vega
- From My Hometown Cayey to San Juan, and How I
Arrived in New York without a Watch - The Trials and Tribulations of an Emigrant in the Iron
Tower of Babel on the Eve of World War I - Proletarians Extend a Hand, but Hunger Pinches and
There Is No Remedy but to Work in a Weapons
Factory
VICENTE J. BERNAL (1888–1915)
PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS (1891–1965)
- Observations on the Brookings Institution Report
MARÍA CRISTINA MENA (1893–1965)
- The Emotions of María Concepción
- The Birth of the God of War
FABIOLA CABEZA DE BACA GILBERT (ca. 1894–1991)
- We Fed Them Cactus
- II: El Cuate
- 3. The Rodeo
- 4. Fiesta at San Hilario
LUIS MUÑOZ MARÍN (1898–1980)
- The Sad Case of Porto Rico
- Speech
JESÚS COLÓN (1901–1974)
- A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches
- The Mother, the Young Daughter, Myself, and All of Us
- Grandma, Please Don’t Come!
- The Way It Was and Other Writings
- The Two United States
- The Jewish People and Us
- My Wife Doesn’t Work
FELIPE ALFAU (1902–1999)
- Locos: A Comedy of Gestures
JOSÉ DÁVILA SEMPRIT (1902–1958)
- The United States
- One of Many
EUGENIO FLORIT (1903–1999)
- In the Big City
- The Lonely Poets of Manhattan
- Portrait of a Man Alone
- Out of the Snow
JOVITA GONZÁLEZ DE MIRELES (1904–1983)
ERNESTO GALARZA (1905–1984)
- Barrio Boy
- From Part One: In a Mountain Village
- Part Five: On the Edge of the Barrio
LUIS LEAL (1907–2010)
FRAY ANGÉLICO CHÁVEZ (1910–1996)
JOSEFINA NIGGLI (1910–1983)
UPHEAVAL: 1946–1979
JULIA DE BURGOS (1914–1953)
- To Julia de Burgos
- Ay, Ay, Ay of the Kinky-Haired Negress
- Pentachrome
- Río Grande de Loíza
- Song to the Hispanic People of America and the World
- Canto to the Free Federation
- Farewell in Welfare Island
AMÉRICO PAREDES (1915–1999)
- With His Pistol in His Hand
- The Country
GUILLERMO COTTO-THORNER (1916–1983)
RENÉ MARQUÉS (1919–1979)
- The Oxcart
- From The Docile Puerto Rican: Literature and Psychological
- The Function of the Puerto Rican Writer Today
SABINE R. ULIBARRÍ (1919–2003)
- My Grandma Smoked Cigars
- El Apache
JOSÉ YGLESIAS (1919–1995)
JOSÉ ANTONIO VILLARREAL (b. 1924)
MARIO SUÁREZ (1925–1998)
JOSÉ LUIS GONZÁLEZ (1926–1994)
- The Night We Became People Again
- Bernardo Vega: A Fighter and His People
CÉSAR CHÁVEZ (1927–1993)
- We Shall Overcome
- Jesus’s Friendship
- An Organizer’s Tale
- Rufino Contreras
- What Is Democracy?
NASH CANDELARIA (b. 1928)
RODOLFO “CORKY” GONZALES (1928–2005)
PEDRO JUAN SOTO (1928–2002)
- Spiks
- The Innocents
- The Champ
- Scribbles
- Bayaminiña
PIRI THOMAS (b. 1928)
- Down These Mean Streets
- The Konk
RICHARD VÁZQUEZ (1928–1994)
ROLANDO HINOJOSA (b. 1929)
MARÍA IRENE FORNÉS (b. 1930)
ROSARIO MORALES and AURORA LEVINS MORALES
(b. 1930 and b. 1954)
- Getting Home Alive
- I Am What I Am (RM)
- Child of the Americas (ALM)
- Puertoricanness (ALM)
- Ending Poem (RM and ALM)
JAIME CARRERO (b. 1931)
ABELARDO “LALO” DELGADO (1931–2004)
- From The Chicano Movement: Some Not Too Objective
Observations
HEBERTO PADILLA (1932–2000)
- The Gift
- A Remembrance of Wallace Stevens in Florida
- Man on the Edge
- Princeton Cemetery
- Song of the Prodigal Son
JACK AGÜEROS (b. 1934)
- Halfway to Dick and Jane: A Puerto Rican Pilgrimage
- Sonnet for 1950
- Sonnet: The History of Puerto Rico
JOHN RECHY (b. 1934)
- City of Night
- City of Night
- Mr King: Between Two Lions
OSCAR “ZETA” ACOSTA (1935–1974)
- The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
NICHOLASA MOHR (b. 1935)
- Nilda
- The Wrong Lunch Line: Early Spring 1946
- Aunt Rosana’s Rocker (Zoraida)
- A Journey toward a Common Ground: The Struggle
and Identity of Hispanics in the U.S.A.
TOMÁS RIVERA (1935–1984)
LUIS RAFAEL SÁNCHEZ (b. 1936)
- The Airbus
- The New Yorkian Quartet
ESTELA PORTILLO TRAMBLEY (1936–1999)
RUDOLFO A. ANAYA (b. 1937)
- The Apple Orchard
- Bless Me, Ultima
- Bendíceme, América
LOURDES CASAL (1938–1981)
- Hudson in Winter
- For Ana Veldford
- Conversation in a Train Station with an Old Man Who Speaks
Spanish
ROSARIO FERRÉ (b. 1938)
- The House on the Lagoon
- Writing in Between
ARTURO ISLAS (1938–1991)
MARY HELEN PONCE (b. 1938)
JOSÉ ANTONIO BURCIAGA (1940–1996)
- Spilling the Beans
- Spilling the Beans
- The Honorable Senator Ralph W. Yarborough
- What’s in a Spanish Name?
- Bilingual Cognates
JOSÉ KOZER (b. 1940)
- Diaspora
- Nimia
- First & last
- The final journey
LUIS VALDEZ (b. 1940)
VICTOR VILLASEÑOR (b. 1940)
- The Greatest Christmas Gift
RICARDO SÁNCHEZ (1941–1995)
- Indict Amerika
- Stream
- Teresa, last night
- Fridays Belong to Friends, Sometimes
- And Would That I Could
THE NUYORICAN POETS
MIGUEL ALGARÍN (b. 1941)
- A Mongo Affair
- Nuyorican Literature
- Nuyorican Angel of Despair
- forGet
- Hiram Morales
PEDRO PIETRI (1944–2004)
- Puerto Rican Obituary
- The Broken English Dream
JOSÉ ANGEL FIGUEROA (b. 1946)
MIGUEL PIÑERO (1946–1988)
- Short Eyes
- A Lower East Side Poem
- This Is Not the Place Where I Was Born
SANDRA MARÍA ESTEVES (b. 1948)
- Here
- Puerto Rican Discovery #3: Not Neither
TATO LAVIERA (b. 1950)
- my graduation speech
- asimilao
- AmeRícan
- lady liberty
JESÚS “PAPOLETO” MELÉNDEZ (b. 1951)
- of a butterfly in el barrio or a stranger in paradise
SAN ANTONIO WOMEN POETS
ANGELA DE HOYOS (1940–2009)
- La Malinche to Cortés and Vice Versa
- La Vie: I Never Said It Was Simple
EVANGELINA VIGIL-PIÑÓN (b. 1949)
- apprenticeship
- crimson the color
- corazón en la palma
CARMEN TAFOLLA (b. 1951)
- Compliments
- Marked
- Letter to Ti
- To Split a Human: Mitos, Machos y la Mujer Chicana
- Chapter 3: Myths, Machos and the Movies: Will the
Real Chicana Please Stand Up?
PUERTO RICAN YOUNG LORDS
IRIS MORALES (b. 1948)
- ¡PALANTE, SIEMPRE PALANTE!: The Young Lords
PABLO GUZMÁN (b. 1951)
- La Vida Pura: A Lord of the Barrio
INTO THE MAINSTREAM: 1980–PRESENT
TINO VILLANUEVA (b. 1941)
- Cycle Bound
- Scene from the Movie Giant
- My Certain Burn toward Pale Ashes
- Catharsis
- Voice over Time
- At the Holocaust Museum: Washington, D.C.
ISABEL ALLENDE (b. 1942)
- Paula
- From Part 1: December 1991 to May 1992
GLORIA ANZALDÚA (1942–2004)
- Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
- The Homeland, Aztlán: El otro México
- Movimientos de rebeldía y las culturas que traicionan
ARIEL DORFMAN (b. 1942)
- Heading South, Looking North
- 2: A Chapter Dealing with the Discovery of Life and
Language at an Early Age
REINALDO ARENAS (1943–1990)
DOLORES PRIDA (b. 1943)
- Coser y cantar: A One-Act Bilingual Fantasy for Two Women
EDWARD RIVERA (1944–2001)
RICHARD RODRIGUEZ (b. 1944)
- Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
- Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father
- Chapter 2: Late Victorians
- Brown: The Last Discovery of America
ALMA LUZ VILLANUEVA (b. 1944)
- bitch bitch bitch bitch
- Delicious Death
- Warrior in the Sand
- Even the Eagles Must Gather
LUCHA CORPI (b. 1945)
- Winter Song
- Day’s Work
- Undocumented Anguish
- Sonata in Two Voices
OCTAVIO ARMAND (b. 1946)
- Braille for Left Hand
- Poem with Dusk
- Poetry as Eruv
RENÉ ALOMÁ (1947–1986)
- A Little Something to Ease the Pain
ALBERTO BALTAZAR HEREDIA URISTA aka ALURISTA
(b. 1947)
- a bone
- labyrinth of scarred hearts
- sometime war
- as our barrio turns . . . who the yoke b on?
LUZ MARÍA UMPIERRE-HERRERA (b. 1947)
DENISE CHÁVEZ (b. 1948)
- Face of an Angel
- Chapter 1: A Long Story
- Chapter 2: The Sleepwalker
- Chapter 4: Are You Wearing a Bra?
JUAN FELIPE HERRERA (b. 1948)
- Exiles
- Literary Asylums
- Quentino
PABLO MEDINA (b. 1948)
- Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood
- Calle de la Amargura
- Nothing Nietzsche
- The Return of Felix Nogara
- A Dictionary of Guatemalan Bird Calls
ESMERALDA SANTIAGO (b. 1948)
- When I Was Puerto Rican
- The American Invasion of Macún
- Island of Lost Causes
SHEREZADA “CHIQUI” VICIOSO (b. 1948)
VÍCTOR HERNÁNDEZ CRUZ (b. 1949)
- The Latest Latin Dance Craze
- Lunequisticos
- Poema Chicano
- Cantinflas
- Is It Certain or Is It Not Certain: Caso Maravilla
JAIME MANRIQUE (b. 1949)
- Latin Moon in Manhattan
- Chapter 1: Little Colombia, Jackson Heights
JULIA ALVAREZ (b. 1950)
- How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
- Entre Lucas y Juan Mejía
- Bilingual Sestina
- ¡Yo!
DAGOBERTO GILB (b. 1950)
- Look on the Bright Side
- Down in the West Texas Town
CARLOS M. N. EIRE (b. 1951)
- Waiting for Snow in Havana
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 14
ROBERTO G. FERNÁNDEZ (b. 1951)
- Raining Backwards
- Holy Radishes!
FRANKLIN GUTIÉRREZ (b. 1951)
OSCAR HIJUELOS (b. 1951)
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- Mr. Ives’ Christmas
- On Madison and Forty-First Street
JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA (b. 1952)
- From Violence to Peace
- A Place to Stand
- Sixteen
- ChicaIndio
PAT MORA (b. 1952)
- A Child, a Child
- La dulcería
- Coatlicue’s Rules: Advice from an Aztec Goddess
- Malinche’s Tips: Pique from Mexico’s Mother
- Consejos de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe: Counsel from the
Brown Virgin
CHERRÍE MORAGA (b. 1952)
- Giving Up the Ghost: Teatro in Two Acts
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER (b. 1952)
- The Story of My Body
- The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica
- The Chameleon
- Hostages to Fortune
- To a Daughter I Cannot Console
- Anniversary
- The Gift of a Cuento
- And May He Be Bilingual
ALBERTO ÁLVARO RÍOS (b. 1952)
- Morning
- The Man Who Became Old
- Mayates
- The Iguana Killer
GARY SOTO (b. 1952)
- The Level at Which the Sky Begins
- How an Uncle Became Gray
- At the Cantina
- Catalina Treviño Is Really from Heaven
- What Are You Speaking?
- The Charity of La Señora Lara
- Nickel and Dime
GIANNINA BRASCHI (b. 1953)
- From Yo-Yo Boing!
- Pelos en la lengua
ANA CASTILLO (b. 1953)
- The Mixquiahuala Letters
- Letter 7
- Letter 15
- Letter 21
- The Guardians
EDUARDO MACHADO (b. 1953)
KATHLEEN ALCALÁ (b. 1954)
- Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist
LORNA DEE CERVANTES (b. 1954)
- Refugee Ship
- Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway
FRANCISCO GOLDMAN (b. 1954)
ELÍAS MIGUEL MUÑOZ (b. 1954)
- From the Land of Machos: Journey to Oz with My Father
MICHAEL NAVA (b. 1954)
RICARDO PAU-LLOSA (b. 1954)
- Dos Ríos
- Frutas
- Dulce
- Charada China
- Return to Havana
LUIS J. RODRÍGUEZ (b. 1954)
- Always Running: La vida loca
HELENA MARÍA VIRAMONTES (b. 1954)
WRITERS OF LATINIDAD
SILVIA CURBELO (b. 1955)
- Summer Storm
- If You Need a Reason
CECILIA RODRÍGUEZ MILANÉS (b. 1961)
ADRIÁN CASTRO (b. 1967)
- In the Tradition of Returning
RICHARD BLANCO (b. 1968)
- Palmita Mía
- Havanasis
- Mother Picking Produce
SANDRA M. CASTILLO (b. 1968)
GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA (b. 1955)
CARLOS MORTON (b. 1955)
- The Many Deaths of Danny Rosales
JOSÉ RIVERA (b. 1955)
- The House of RamÓn Iglesia
LUIS ALBERTO URREA (b. 1955)
- A Lake of Sleeping Children
- The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
- From Chapter 1: The Rules of the Game
ROBERTO VALERO (1955–1994)
- Roberto
- Phone Call
- Exile
- Islands Are Evil and Nobody Knows It
RUTH BEHAR (b. 1956)
- From Juban América
- The Hebrew Cemetery of Guabanacoa
SUSANA CHÁVEZ-SILVERMAN (b. 1956)
- Killer Crónicas: Bilingual Memories
DIONISIO MARTÍNEZ (b. 1956)
- History as a Second Language
- In a Duplex Near the San Andreas Fault
- Je te veux
- The Cultivation of Orchids
ACHY OBEJAS (b. 1956)
MARTÍN ESPADA (b. 1957)
- Revolutionary Spanish Lesson
- Niggerlips
- Imagine the Angels of Bread
- My Name Is Espada
- Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
- The Republic of Poetry
ROLANDO PÉREZ (b. 1957)
- New York Movie
- Hotel Room
- Summer Evening
- First Experience
- Canto 10
CAROLINA HOSPITAL (b. 1957)
- How the Cubans Stole Miami
CRISTINA GARCÍA (b. 1958)
- Dreaming in Cuban
- Ocean Blue
- The Meaning of Shells
- The Agüero Sisters
ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA (b. 1958)
NILO CRUZ (b. 1959)
DEMETRIA MARTÍNEZ (b. 1960)
- Fragmentos/Fragments
- The Devil’s Workshop
- Ars Poetica
ABRAHAM RODRIGUEZ (b. 1961)
RUBÉN MARTÍNEZ (b. 1962)
- The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City
and Beyond- A Death in the Family
- Manifesto
- Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
VIRGIL SUÁREZ (b. 1962)
- Tea Leaves, Caracoles, Coffee Beans
- Ricochet
- Floridiana
- The Trouble with Some Words in English
- Cucuyo Ghazal Razzmatazz
- Orthography
- What We Choose of Exile
RAFAEL CAMPO (b. 1963)
- Elise
- Miss Key West, 1990
- A Poet’s Education
- I Am Mrs. Lorca
- The Changing Face of AIDS
JUNOT DÍAZ (b. 1968)
- Ysrael
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- From Chapter 1: GhettoNerd at the End of the World:
1974–1987
ANA MENÉNDEZ (b. 1970)
- In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd
WILLIE PERDOMO (b. 1971)
- Nigger-Reecan Blues
- Brother Lo
- New Boogaloo
MANUEL MUÑOZ (b. 1975)
DANIEL ALARCÓN (b. 1977)
MARÍA TERESA “MARIPOSA” FERNÁNDEZ (b. 1977)
- Boricua Butterfly
- Ode to the Diasporican
- Poem for My Grifa-Rican Sistah Or Broken Ends Broken Promises
POPULAR DIMENSIONS
DICHOS
CHISTES
CARTOONISTAS
GUS ARRIOLA (1917–2008)
THE HERNANDEZ BROTHERS: MARIO (b. 1953),
GILBERTO (b. 1957), and JAIME (b. 1959)
LALO LÓPEZ ALCARAZ (b. 1964)
- Hi-Spanic Hysteria Month
- Estar Wars: The Brown Menace
TEATRO POPULAR
CULTURE CLASH
CUENTOS AND LEYENDAS
- Juan Chililí
- Paloma Blanca
- Chirlos Birlos
- The Burro and the Coyote
- The Pranks of Pedro de Urdemalas
- Eyes That Come Out at Night
- La Llorona
- La Llorona by Alcina Lubitch Domecq
- The Flea
- The Boy and the Devil
CANCIONES
CHILDREN’S SONG: Arroz con leche
FOLK SONG: De colores
CORRIDO
NARCOCORRIDO: Contrabando y traición (Written by Angel
González)
BOLERO: Lamento Borincano (Written by Rafael Hernández
Marín)
SALSA: Burundanga (Written by Oscar Muñoz Bouffartique
and performed by Celia Cruz)
MERENGUE: Carnaval del Barrio (Written by Lin-Manuel
Miranda)
CHICANO ROCK: Good Morning Aztlán (Written by David
Hidalgo and Louie Pérez and performed by Los Lobos)
LATIN POP: Livin’ la Vida Loca (Written by Desmond Child
and Robi Rosa and performed by Ricky Martin)
HIP-HOP: Latin Lingo (Written by Senen Reyes, Louis
Freeze, and Lawrence Muggerud and performed
by Cypress Hill)
REGGAETÓN: Somos raperos pero no delincuentes (Written and
performed by Ivy Queen)
APPENDIX 1: CHRONOLOGY—LITERATURE
AND HISTORY
APPENDIX 2: TREATIES, ACTS, AND PROPOSITIONS
- The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
- The Treaty of Paris (1898)
- The Jones Act (1917)
- The Bracero Agreement (1942)
- California Proposition 187 (1994)
APPENDIX 3: INFLUENTIAL ESSAYS BY
LATIN AMERICAN WRITERS
JOSÉ ENRIQUE RODÓ (1872–1917)
JOSÉ VASCONCELOS (1882–1959)
OCTAVIO PAZ (1914–1998)
- The Labyrinth of Solitude
- From Chapter 1: The Pachuco and Other Extremes
ROBERTO FERNÁNDEZ RETAMAR (b. 1930)
- Caliban: Notes Toward a Discussion of Culture in Our America
- A Question
- Toward the History of Caliban
- Our Symbol
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX