Title:
Masterpieces of Latino literature
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Frank N. Magill.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : HarperCollins, ©1994.
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.
Added Author:
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.