Full Description
Winner, 2024 RUSA Outstanding Reference Award
Offers a comprehensive overview of the most important authors, movements, genres, and historical turning points in Latino literature.
More than 60 million Latinos currently live in the United States. Yet contributions from writers who trace their heritage to the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Mexico have and continue to be overlooked by critics and general audiences alike. Latino Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students gathers the best from these authors and presents them to readers in an informed and accessible way. Intended to be a useful resource for students, this volume introduces the key figures and genres central to Latino literature.
Entries are written by prominent and emerging scholars and are comprehensive in their coverage of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Different critical approaches inform and interpret the myriad complexities of Latino literary production over the last several hundred years. Finally, detailed historical and cultural accounts of Latino diasporas also enrich readers' understandings of the writings that have and continue to be influenced by changes in cultural geography, providing readers with the information they need to appreciate a body of work that will continue to flourish in and alongside Latino communities.
Contents
List of Entries
Preface
Introduction
Chronology
The Encyclopedia
Acosta, Oscar "Zeta"
Afro-Latinx Literature and Cultural
Expression
Agüeros, Jack
Alarcón, Daniel
Alarcón, Francisco X.
Alfaro, Luis
Algarín, Miguel
Alurista
Alvarez, Julia
Anaya, Rudolfo
Anzaldúa, Gloria
Arte Público Press
Bildungsroman
Campo, Rafael
Casal, Lourdes
Castillo, Ana
Cervantes, Lorna Dee
Chavez, Cesar Estrada
Chávez, Denise
Chicano Movement
Children's Literature
Cisneros, Sandra
Cuban Diaspora
Díaz, Junot
Engle, Margarita
Espada, Martín
Female Latino Poetry
Fornés, María Irene
Fusco, Coco
García, Cristina
Gaspar de Alba, Alicia
Gómez-Peña, Guillermo
Gonzales, Rodolfo "Corky"
Graphic Novel
Herrera, Juan Felipe
Hijuelos, Oscar
Hinojosa, Rolando
La Raza
Leguizamo, John
Limón, Graciela
Martínez, Demetria
Millennial Undocumented
Experience, The
Mohr, Nicholasa
Mora, Pat
Moraga, Cherríe
Morales, Alejandro
Muñoz, Elías Miguel
Novel of Immigration and Memoir
Obejas, Achy
Performance Art
Pietri, Pedro
Prida, Dolores
Puerto Rican Diaspora
Queer and Feminist Performance
Queer Theory
Rivera, Tomás
Rivera-Valdés, Sonia
Rodriguez, Luis Javier
Rodriguez, Richard
Santiago, Esmeralda
Science Fiction
Soto, Gary
Stavans, Ilan
Suárez, Virgil
Teatro Campesino, El
TENAZ
Thomas, Piri
Valdez, Luis Miguel
Vega, Ana Lydia
Vega Yunqué, Edgardo
Villanueva, Tino
Villarreal, José Antonio
Villaseñor, Victor
Viramontes, Helena María
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
