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Representations of Mexican American Migrant Childhood in Rivera's "...y no se lo trago la tierra" and Viramontes's "Under the Feet of Jesus"
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Beck, Scott A.; Rangel, Dolores E. – Bilingual Review, 2009
This article gives an analysis of two books: Thomas Rivera's "...y no se lo trago la tierra" and Helena Maria Viramontes's "Under the Feet of Jesus". The two books are strong and important literary texts that stand in close relation to each other. Both texts treat the subject of migrant childhood by affirming central themes of Chicano literature.…
Descriptors: History, Mexican Americans, Children, Hispanic Americans
Of "Chicharrones" and Clam Chowder: Gender and Consumption in Jorge Ulica's Cronicas Diabolicas
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Barrera, Magdalena – Bilingual Review, 2009
This essay examines the working-class Mexican experience as represented in Jorge Ulica's "Cronicas Diabolicas," which he published between 1916 and 1926. What unites the wide-ranging subject matter of the chronicles is the author's resolute interest in maintaining his working-class compatriots' cultural and ideological ties to Mexico.…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Females, Mexican Americans, Foreign Countries
The Chicana Subject in Ana Castillo's Fiction and the Discursive Zone of Chicana/o Theory
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Carson, Benjamin D. – Bilingual Review, 2007
In the world of Chicana fiction, Ana Castillo has achieved the kind of status Maxine Hong Kingston has attained within Asian American discourse. Castillo's work is popular not only with the general reading public but in many academic circles as well. What sets Castillo apart from so many other Chicana fiction writers is that she is also a…
Descriptors: American Indians, Mexican Americans, Fiction, Hispanic American Literature
Observaciones sobre los problemas de traduccion de la literatura chicana (Observations on the Problems of Translating Chicano Literature)
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Avendano, Fausto – Bilingual Review, 1975
This article discusses the problems encountered in translating Chicano literary works into English. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, English, Hispanic American Literature, Idioms
Hispanics in the United States: An Anthology of Creative Literature.
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Keller, Gary D., Ed.; Jimenez, Francisco, Ed. – Bilingual Review, 1979
Presents (with biographical sketches) works written by Spanish authors in the United States on: Pure Art; Tradition, Humor, and Folklore; Justice and Reason; Coping with America; Hispanic Estrangement; The Hispanic; Schooling for Hispanics; and Death, Transmogrification, and Other Mysteries. Available from Bilingual Press, Dept. of Foreign…
Descriptors: Culture Contact, Ethnic Groups, Folk Culture, Hispanic American Culture