Masterpieces of Latino literature

Title:

JLCTITLE245:

edited by Frank N. Magill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

xiii, 655 pages ; 25 cm

ISBN:

9780062701060

General Note:

Includes indexes.

Abstract:

A critical summary of some of the most noted works of Latino literature offers explanation and evaluation of writings by Jorge Amado, Octavio Paz, Carlos Casteneda, and others.

Subject Term:

Mexican Americans in literature.

Latin American literature -- History and criticism.

American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism.

Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life.

American literature -- Hispanic American authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added Author:

Magill, Frank N. (Frank Northen), 1907-1997.

Additional Physical Form Available:

Also issued online.

Contents:

Alburquerque / Rudolfo A. Anaya -- All green shall perish / Eduardo Mallea -- Always running : la vida loca, gang days in L.A. / Luis J. Rodriguez -- Apple in the dark, The / Clarice Lispector -- Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter / Mario Vargas Llosa -- Aura / Carlos Fuentes -- Autobiography of a brown buffalo, The / Oscar Zeta Acosta -- Autumn of the patriarch, The / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Avalovara / Osman Lins -- Bay of silence, The / Eduardo Mallea -- Betrayed by Rita Hayworth / Manuel Puig -- Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo A. Anaya -- Bow and the lyre : the poem, the poetic revelation, poetry, and history, The / Octavio Paz -- Boy without a flag : tales of the South Bronx, The / Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. -- Brick people, The / Alejandro Morales -- Brief life, A / Juan Carlos Onetti -- Broad and alien is the world / Ciro Alegria -- Buffalo nickel : a memoir / Floyd Salas -- Chronicle of a death foretold / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- City of night / John Rechy -- Conversation in the cathedral / Mario Vargas Llosa -- Coronation / Jose Donoso -- Cutter, The / Virgil Suarez -- Days of obligation : an argument with my Mexican father / Richard Rodriguez -- Dear Diego / Elena Poniatowska -- Dear Rafe / Rolando Hinojosa -- Death of Artemio Cruz, The / Carlos Fuentes -- Delia's song / Lucha Corpi -- Devil in Texas, The / Aristeo Brito -- Devil to pay in the backlands, The / Joao Guimaraes Rosa -- Diary of the War of the Pig / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Distant relations / Carlos Fuentes -- Don Goyo / Demetrio Aguilera Malta -- Don Segundo Sombra / Ricardo Guiraldes -- Dona Flor and her two husbands : a moral and amorous tale / Jorge Amado -- Dora, Doralina / Rachel de Queiroz -- Down these mean streets / Piri Thomas -- Dreaming in Cuban / Cristina Garcia -- Eagle and the serpent, The / Martin Luis Guzman -- Edge of the storm, The / Agustin Yanez -- Epitaph of a small winner / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis -- Essays of Jorge Luis Borges, The / Jorge Luis Borges -- Eva Luna / Isabel Allende -- Explosion in a cathedral / Alejo Carpentier -- Face / Cecile Pineda -- Fair, The / Juan Jose Arreola -- Fiesta in November / Eduardo Mallea -- Fifth horseman, The / Jose Antonio Villarreal -- Final mist, The / Maria Luisa Bombal -- Flies, The / Mariano Azuela -- Foreign girl, The / Florencio Sanchez -- Fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, The / Oscar Hijuelos -- Fragmented life of Don Jacobo Lerner, The / Isaac Goldemberg -- From Cuba with a song / Severo Sarduy -- Futile life of Pito Perez, The / Jose Ruben Romero -- Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon / Jorge Amado -- Gaucho Martin Fierro, The / Jose Hernandez -- Gazapo / Gustavo Sainz -- Golden serpent, The / Ciro Alegria -- Green house, The / Mario Vargas Llosa -- He who searches / Luisa Valenzuela -- Heartbreak tango / Manuel Puig -- Hopscotch / Julio Cortazar.

Hour of the star, The / Clarice Lispector -- House of the spirits, The / Isabel Allende -- House on Mango Street, The / Sandra Cisneros -- How the Garcia Girls lost their accents / Julia Alvarez -- Hunger of memory : the education of Richard Rodriguez / Richard Rodriguez -- I, the Supreme / Augusto Roa Bastos -- Infante's inferno / Guillermo Cabrera Infante -- Invention of Morel, The / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Itching parrot, The / Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi -- Jubiaba / Jorge Amado -- Kingdom of this world, The / Alejo Carpentier -- Kiss of the spider woman / Manuel Puig -- Labyrinth of solitude : life and thought in Mexico, The / Octavio Paz -- Leaf storm / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Lean lands, The / Agustin Yanez -- Leaving home / Lionel G. Garcia -- Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly installments with recipes, romances, and home remedies / Laura Esquivel -- Lizard's tail, The / Luisa Valenzuela -- Lost steps, The / Alejo Carpentier -- Love in the time of cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Macho! / Victor Villasenor -- Macho Camacho's beat / Luis Rafael Sanchez -- Macunaima / Mario de Andrade -- Mambo kings play songs of love, The / Oscar Hijuelos -- Manual for Manuel, A / Julio Cortazar -- Memory of fire / Eduardo Galeano -- Men of maize / Miguel Angel Asturias -- Mixquiahuala letters, The / Ana Castillo -- Mulata / Miguel Angel Asturias -- No One Writes to the Colonel / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Obscene Bird of Night, The / Jose Donoso -- Old gringo, The / Carlos Fuentes -- On heroes and tombs / Ernesto Sabato -- One day of life / Manlio Argueta -- One hundred years of solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Our house in the last world / Oscar Hijuelos -- Outsider, The / Ernesto Sabato -- Palace of the white skunks, The / Reinaldo Arenas -- Paradiso / Jose Lezama Lima -- Passion according to G.H., The / Clarice Lispector -- Pedro Paramo / Juan Rulfo -- Philosopher or dog? / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis -- Plays of Dolores Prida, The / Dolores Prida -- Plays of Luis Rafael Sanchez, The / Luis Rafael Sanchez -- Plays of Luis Miguel Valdez, The / Luis Miguel Valdez -- Plum plum pickers, The / Raymond Barrio -- Pocho / Jose Antonio Villarreal -- Poetry of Jimmy Santiago Baca, The / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Poetry of Ernesto Cardenal, The / Ernesto Cardenal -- Poetry of Rosario Castellanos, The / Rosario Castellanos -- Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes, The / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Poetry of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, The / Juana Ines de la Cruz -- Poetry of Victor Hernandez Cruz, The / Victor Hernandez Cruz -- Poetry of Ruben Dario, The / Ruben Dario -- Poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, The / Carlos Drummond de Andrade -- Poetry of Nicolas Guillen, The / Nicolas Guillen -- Poetry of Jose-Maria de Heredia, The / Jose-Maria de Heredia -- Poetry of Jose Marti, The / Jose Marti.

Poetry of Gabriela Mistral, The / Gabriela Mistral -- Poetry of Pablo Neruda, The / Pablo Neruda -- Poetry of Judith Ortiz Cofer, The / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Poetry of Heberto Padilla, The / Heberto Padilla -- Poetry of Nicanor Parra, The / Nicanor Parra -- Poetry of Octavio Paz, The / Octavio Paz -- Poetry of Alberto Rios, The / Alberto Rios -- Poetry of Luis Omar Salinas, The / Luis Omar Salinas -- Poetry of Gary Soto, The / Gary Soto -- Poetry of Cesar Vallejo, The / Cesar Vallejo -- Poetry of Bernice Zamora, The / Bernice Zamora -- Rain of gold / Victor Villasenor -- Rebellion in the backlands / Euclides da Cunha -- Senor Presidente, El / Miguel Angel Asturias -- Seven madmen, The / Roberto Arlt -- Shipyard, The / Juan Carlos Onetti -- Shrouded woman, The / Maria Luisa Bombal -- 62 : a model kit / Julio Cortazar -- So far from God / Ana Castillo -- Son of man / Augusto Roa Bastos -- Spidertown : a novel / Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. -- Stories of Jorge Luis Borges, The / Jorge Luis Borges -- Stories of Rosario Castellanos, The / Rosario Castellanos -- Stories of Denise Chavez, The / Denise Chavez -- Stories of Julio Cortazar, The / Julio Cortazar -- Stories of Alberto Rios, The / Alberto Rios -- Stories of Tomas Rivera, The / Tomas Rivera -- Stories of Helena Maria Viramontes, The / Helena Maria Viramontes -- Storyteller, The / Mario Vargas Llosa -- Strong Wind / Miguel Angel Asturias -- Summer life, A / Gary Soto -- Tattoo the wicked cross / Floyd Salas -- Teachings of Don Juan : A Yaqui way of knowledge, The / Carlos Castaneda -- Tent of miracles / Jorge Amado -- Terra nostra / Carlos Fuentes -- This Sunday / Jose Donoso -- Three Marias, The / Rachel de Queiroz -- Three trapped tigers / Guillermo Cabrera Infante -- Time of the hero, The / Mario Vargas Llosa -- Underdogs, The / Mariano Azuela -- Valley, The / Rolando Hinojosa -- Villagers, The / Jorge Icaza -- Violent land, The / Jorge Amado -- Vision de Anahuac / Alfonso Reyes -- War of the end of the world, The / Mario Vargas Llosa -- Wedding, The / Mary Helen Ponce -- Where the air is clear / Carlos Fuentes -- Winners, The / Julio Cortazar -- Woman hollering creek and other Stories / Sandra Cisneros -- Working in the dark / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Zarco, the bandit, El / Manuel Altamirano -- Zero / Ignacio de Loyola Brandao.

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Masterpieces of Latino literature

Alburquerque / All green shall perish / Always running : la vida loca, gang days in L.A. / Apple in the dark, The / Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter / Aura / Autobiography of a brown buffalo, The / Autumn of the patriarch, The / Avalovara / Bay of silence, The / Betrayed by Rita Hayworth / Bless me, Ultima / Bow and the lyre : the poem, the poetic revelation, poetry, and history, The / Boy without a flag : tales of the South Bronx, The / Brick people, The / Brief life, A / Broad and alien is the world / Buffalo nickel : a memoir / Chronicle of a death foretold / City of night / Conversation in the cathedral / Coronation / Cutter, The / Days of obligation : an argument with my Mexican father / Dear Diego / Dear Rafe / Death of Artemio Cruz, The / Delia's song / Devil in Texas, The / Devil to pay in the backlands, The / Diary of the War of the Pig / Distant relations / Don Goyo / Don Segundo Sombra / Dona Flor and her two husbands : a moral and amorous tale / Dora, Doralina / Down these mean streets / Dreaming in Cuban / Eagle and the serpent, The / Edge of the storm, The / Epitaph of a small winner / Essays of Jorge Luis Borges, The / Eva Luna / Explosion in a cathedral / Face / Fair, The / Fiesta in November / Fifth horseman, The / Final mist, The / Flies, The / Foreign girl, The / Fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, The / Fragmented life of Don Jacobo Lerner, The / From Cuba with a song / Futile life of Pito Perez, The / Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon / Gaucho Martin Fierro, The / Gazapo / Golden serpent, The / Green house, The / He who searches / Heartbreak tango / Hopscotch

Hour of the star, The / House of the spirits, The / House on Mango Street, The / How the Garcia Girls lost their accents / Hunger of memory : the education of Richard Rodriguez / I, the Supreme / Infante's inferno / Invention of Morel, The / Itching parrot, The / Jubiaba / Kingdom of this world, The / Kiss of the spider woman / Labyrinth of solitude : life and thought in Mexico, The / Leaf storm / Lean lands, The / Leaving home / Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly installments with recipes, romances, and home remedies / Lizard's tail, The / Lost steps, The / Love in the time of cholera / Macho! / Macho Camacho's beat / Macunaima / Mambo kings play songs of love, The / Manual for Manuel, A / Memory of fire / Men of maize / Mixquiahuala letters, The / Mulata / No One Writes to the Colonel / Obscene Bird of Night, The / Old gringo, The / On heroes and tombs / One day of life / One hundred years of solitude / Our house in the last world / Outsider, The / Palace of the white skunks, The / Paradiso / Passion according to G.H., The / Pedro Paramo / Philosopher or dog? / Plays of Dolores Prida, The / Plays of Luis Rafael Sanchez, The / Plays of Luis Miguel Valdez, The / Plum plum pickers, The / Pocho / Poetry of Jimmy Santiago Baca, The / Poetry of Ernesto Cardenal, The / Poetry of Rosario Castellanos, The / Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes, The / Poetry of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, The / Poetry of Victor Hernandez Cruz, The / Poetry of Ruben Dario, The / Poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, The / Poetry of Nicolas Guillen, The / Poetry of Jose-Maria de Heredia, The / Poetry of Jose Marti, The

Poetry of Gabriela Mistral, The / Poetry of Pablo Neruda, The / Poetry of Judith Ortiz Cofer, The / Poetry of Heberto Padilla, The / Poetry of Nicanor Parra, The / Poetry of Octavio Paz, The / Poetry of Alberto Rios, The / Poetry of Luis Omar Salinas, The / Poetry of Gary Soto, The / Poetry of Cesar Vallejo, The / Poetry of Bernice Zamora, The / Rain of gold / Rebellion in the backlands / Senor Presidente, El / Seven madmen, The / Shipyard, The / Shrouded woman, The / 62 : a model kit / So far from God / Son of man / Spidertown : a novel / Stories of Jorge Luis Borges, The / Stories of Rosario Castellanos, The / Stories of Denise Chavez, The / Stories of Julio Cortazar, The / Stories of Alberto Rios, The / Stories of Tomas Rivera, The / Stories of Helena Maria Viramontes, The / Storyteller, The / Strong Wind / Summer life, A / Tattoo the wicked cross / Teachings of Don Juan : A Yaqui way of knowledge, The / Tent of miracles / Terra nostra / This Sunday / Three Marias, The / Three trapped tigers / Time of the hero, The / Underdogs, The / Valley, The / Villagers, The / Violent land, The / Vision de Anahuac / War of the end of the world, The / Wedding, The / Where the air is clear / Winners, The / Woman hollering creek and other Stories / Working in the dark / Zarco, the bandit, El / Zero

Magill, Frank N. (Frank Northen), 1907-1997.

Rudolfo A. Anaya -- Eduardo Mallea -- Luis J. Rodriguez -- Clarice Lispector -- Mario Vargas Llosa -- Carlos Fuentes -- Oscar Zeta Acosta -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Osman Lins -- Eduardo Mallea -- Manuel Puig -- Rudolfo A. Anaya -- Octavio Paz -- Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. -- Alejandro Morales -- Juan Carlos Onetti -- Ciro Alegria -- Floyd Salas -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- John Rechy -- Mario Vargas Llosa -- Jose Donoso -- Virgil Suarez -- Richard Rodriguez -- Elena Poniatowska -- Rolando Hinojosa -- Carlos Fuentes -- Lucha Corpi -- Aristeo Brito -- Joao Guimaraes Rosa -- Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Carlos Fuentes -- Demetrio Aguilera Malta -- Ricardo Guiraldes -- Jorge Amado -- Rachel de Queiroz -- Piri Thomas -- Cristina Garcia -- Martin Luis Guzman -- Agustin Yanez -- Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Isabel Allende -- Alejo Carpentier -- Cecile Pineda -- Juan Jose Arreola -- Eduardo Mallea -- Jose Antonio Villarreal -- Maria Luisa Bombal -- Mariano Azuela -- Florencio Sanchez -- Oscar Hijuelos -- Isaac Goldemberg -- Severo Sarduy -- Jose Ruben Romero -- Jorge Amado -- Jose Hernandez -- Gustavo Sainz -- Ciro Alegria -- Mario Vargas Llosa -- Luisa Valenzuela -- Manuel Puig -- Julio Cortazar.

Clarice Lispector -- Isabel Allende -- Sandra Cisneros -- Julia Alvarez -- Richard Rodriguez -- Augusto Roa Bastos -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -- Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi -- Jorge Amado -- Alejo Carpentier -- Manuel Puig -- Octavio Paz -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Agustin Yanez -- Lionel G. Garcia -- Laura Esquivel -- Luisa Valenzuela -- Alejo Carpentier -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Victor Villasenor -- Luis Rafael Sanchez -- Mario de Andrade -- Oscar Hijuelos -- Julio Cortazar -- Eduardo Galeano -- Miguel Angel Asturias -- Ana Castillo -- Miguel Angel Asturias -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Jose Donoso -- Carlos Fuentes -- Ernesto Sabato -- Manlio Argueta -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Oscar Hijuelos -- Ernesto Sabato -- Reinaldo Arenas -- Jose Lezama Lima -- Clarice Lispector -- Juan Rulfo -- Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis -- Dolores Prida -- Luis Rafael Sanchez -- Luis Miguel Valdez -- Raymond Barrio -- Jose Antonio Villarreal -- Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Ernesto Cardenal -- Rosario Castellanos -- Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Juana Ines de la Cruz -- Victor Hernandez Cruz -- Ruben Dario -- Carlos Drummond de Andrade -- Nicolas Guillen -- Jose-Maria de Heredia -- Jose Marti.

Gabriela Mistral -- Pablo Neruda -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Heberto Padilla -- Nicanor Parra -- Octavio Paz -- Alberto Rios -- Luis Omar Salinas -- Gary Soto -- Cesar Vallejo -- Bernice Zamora -- Victor Villasenor -- Euclides da Cunha -- Miguel Angel Asturias -- Roberto Arlt -- Juan Carlos Onetti -- Maria Luisa Bombal -- Julio Cortazar -- Ana Castillo -- Augusto Roa Bastos -- Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Rosario Castellanos -- Denise Chavez -- Julio Cortazar -- Alberto Rios -- Tomas Rivera -- Helena Maria Viramontes -- Mario Vargas Llosa -- Miguel Angel Asturias -- Gary Soto -- Floyd Salas -- Carlos Castaneda -- Jorge Amado -- Carlos Fuentes -- Jose Donoso -- Rachel de Queiroz -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -- Mario Vargas Llosa -- Mariano Azuela -- Rolando Hinojosa -- Jorge Icaza -- Jorge Amado -- Alfonso Reyes -- Mario Vargas Llosa -- Mary Helen Ponce -- Carlos Fuentes -- Julio Cortazar -- Sandra Cisneros -- Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Manuel Altamirano -- Ignacio de Loyola Brandao.

edited by Frank N. Magill.

1994

Masterpieces of Latino literature

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Reference Book