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Product Description: Latina literature is one of the fastest growing areas of American literature today, and the impact Latina writers have had on the literary scene is undeniable. This volume features the most significant articles including peer-review essays, interviews, and reviews to bring together the best scholarship on Latina writers ever compiled...read more
By Ilan Stavans (editor)

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9780313348068 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 30, 2008, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: Latina literature is one of the fastest growing areas of American literature today, and the impact Latina writers have had on the literary scene is undeniable.

Product Description: Novelists, poets, playwrights and short-story writers The description "Latino" is often limited to those born in the United States of Spanish-speaking parents, or who have migrated to the United States from a Spanish-language country Salem uses the term "Latino" in its larger sense, to refer to authors living in the Americas who speak - or descend from those who spoke - any romance language, as well as those of Latin American descent living in the United States, who often may speak only English...read more
By Salem Press (corporate author)

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9781587652431 | Salem Pr Inc, February 1, 2006, cover price $217.00 | About this edition: Provides critical analysis of the works of Latino novelists, poets, and dramatists of the Western Hemisphere.
9781587652448 | Salem Pr Inc, October 30, 2005, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: Provides critical analysis of the works of Latino novelists, poets, and dramatists of the Western Hemisphere.

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9781587653599 | Salem Pr Inc, December 18, 2007, cover price $0.04 | About this edition: Novelists, poets, playwrights and short-story writers The description "Latino" is often limited to those born in the United States of Spanish-speaking parents, or who have migrated to the United States from a Spanish-language country Salem uses the term "Latino" in its larger sense, to refer to authors living in the Americas who speak - or descend from those who spoke - any romance language, as well as those of Latin American descent living in the United States, who often may speak only English.

By Lyn Di Lorio Sandin (editor) and Richard Perez (editor)

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9781403979995 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 30, 2007, cover price $120.00

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Product Description: Fifteen years of archival and critical work have been conducted under the auspices of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston. This ongoing and comprehensive program seeks to locate, identify, preserve, and disseminate the written culture of U...read more

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9781558854789 | Bilingual edition (Arte Publico Pr, November 24, 2006), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Fifteen years of archival and critical work have been conducted under the auspices of the Recovering the U.

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This historic fourth volume of articles represents the finished, re-worked product of the biennial conferences of recovery, providing theoretical and practical approaches, and critical studies on specific texts. Jose Aranda and Silvio Torres-Saillant's introduction conceptualizes and unifies a broad historical swath that encompasses the Spanish and English-language expression of Hispanic natives, immigrants and exiles from the colonial period to 1960.
By Ramon A. Gutierrez (editor)

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9781558853713 | Pinata Books, May 31, 2006, cover price $27.95
9781558853614 | Arte Publico Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This historic fourth volume of articles represents the finished, re-worked product of the biennial conferences of recovery, providing theoretical and practical approaches, and critical studies on specific texts.
9781558852518 | Arte Publico Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This third volume of academic essays on recovering the Hispanic literary heritage of the United States features 27 articles by leading scholars.
9781558850637 | Arte Publico Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Recovering the U.

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9781558850583 | Arte Publico Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Recovering the U.

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Product Description: El ambiente nuestro examines in unprecedented depth homoerotic issues in the writing of such authors as John Rechy, Michael Nava, Francisco Alarcón, and Richard Rodriguez. David William Foster explores the important body of writing on these issues that began with John Rechy’s founding texts of Chicano narrative and continues with more recent works such as Jaime Manrique’s Eminent Maricones...read more

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9781931010238 | Bilingual edition (Bilingual Pr, March 30, 2006), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: El ambiente nuestro examines in unprecedented depth homoerotic issues in the writing of such authors as John Rechy, Michael Nava, Francisco Alarcón, and Richard Rodriguez.
9781931010238 | Bilingual edition (Bilingual Pr, March 30, 2006), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: El ambiente nuestro examines in unprecedented depth homoerotic issues in the writing of such authors as John Rechy, Michael Nava, Francisco Alarcón, and Richard Rodriguez.

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Product Description: How does religious commitment and practice contribute to what it means to be Latino or Latina in the U.S.? The answers to that question usually come from historical or sociological study, yet what if one were to seek them in contemporary Latino/a fiction? In this groundbreaking work, Hector Avalos turns to the works of U...read more

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9780687330454 | Abingdon Pr, February 1, 2006, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: How does religious commitment and practice contribute to what it means to be Latino or Latina in the U.

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Provides critical analysis of the works of Latino novelists, poets, and dramatists of the Western Hemisphere.

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9781587652455 | Salem Pr Inc, October 30, 2005, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: Provides critical analysis of the works of Latino novelists, poets, and dramatists of the Western Hemisphere.

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Provides critical analysis of the works of Latino novelists, poets, and dramatists of the Western Hemisphere.

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9781587652462 | Salem Pr Inc, October 30, 2005, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: Provides critical analysis of the works of Latino novelists, poets, and dramatists of the Western Hemisphere.

Presents profiles of American writers of Hispanic origins along with criticism of their works.
By Alan West (editor)

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9780684314259 | Atheneum, July 30, 2005, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: Presents profiles of American writers of Hispanic origins along with criticism of their works.
9780684312941 | Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, August 1, 2004, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: Presents profiles of American writers of Hispanic origins along with criticism of their works.
9780684312958 | Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, December 1, 2003, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Presents profiles of American writers of Hispanic origins along with criticism of their works.
9780684312934 | Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, November 1, 2003, cover price $442.00 | About this edition: Presents profiles of American writers of Hispanic origins along with criticism of their works.

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Product Description: This essential teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by U.S. Latina and Latin American Women writers. It will assist non-specialist educators in syllabus revision, new course design and classroom presentation. The inclusive focus of the book - that is, combining both US Latina and Latin American women writers - is significant because it introduces a more global and transnational way of approaching the literature...read more

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9780312294137 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 19, 2003, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This essential teaching guide focuses on US Latina writers.

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9781403969453 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 4, 2005, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This essential teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by U.

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Product Description: What would American literature look like in languages other than English, and what would Latin American literature look like if we understood the United States to be a Latin American country and took seriously the work by U.S. Latinos/as in Spanish? Debra A...read more

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9780791462973 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 2005, cover price $75.50 | About this edition: What would American literature look like in languages other than English, and what would Latin American literature look like if we understood the United States to be a Latin American country and took seriously the work by U.

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9780791462980 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 2005, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: What would American literature look like in languages other than English, and what would Latin American literature look like if we understood the United States to be a Latin American country and took seriously the work by U.

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Product Description: Killing Spanish suggests that the doubles, madwomen and other raging characters that populate the pages of contemporary U.S. Latino/a literature allegorize ambivalence about both present American identity and past Caribbean and Latin American origins...read more

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9781403963949 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 13, 2004, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: In this intelligent monograph for women's studies, literature and Latin American studies, Lyn Di Iorio Sandin asserts that there is a significant ambivalence surrounding identity that is present in the works of Latino writers such as Cristina Garcia, Edward Rivera, and Abraham Rodriguez.

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9780230617513 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 15, 2009, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Killing Spanish suggests that the doubles, madwomen and other raging characters that populate the pages of contemporary U.

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9780313317934 | Greenwood Pub Group, December 30, 2003, cover price $64.00

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9781560232780 | Routledge, January 1, 2004, cover price $135.00

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9781560232797 | Routledge, January 1, 2004, cover price $62.95

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Product Description: "Before it becomes a political, social, or even linguistic issue, bilingualism is a private affair, intimate theater." So writes Gustavo Pérez Firmat in this ground-breaking study of the interweaving of life and languages in a group of bilingual Spanish, Spanish-American and Latino writers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781403962881 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 17, 2003, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: "Before it becomes a political, social, or even linguistic issue, bilingualism is a private affair, intimate theater.

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Product Description: 'Before it becomes a political, social, or even linguistic issue, bilingualism is a private affair, intimate theater'. So writes Firmat in this ground-breaking study of the interweaving of life and languages in a group of bilingual Spanish, Spanish-American and Latino writers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781403962898 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 17, 2003, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: 'Before it becomes a political, social, or even linguistic issue, bilingualism is a private affair, intimate theater'.

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Product Description: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780815332282 | Routledge, July 1, 1999, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: First published in 1999.

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Product Description: Offers critical perspectives on the many Hispanic authors who have staked out a vibrant and burgeoning presence on the American literary scene. This book includes a chronology, bibliography, notes on the contributors, and an introductory essay.
By Harold Bloom (editor)

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9780791047866 | Chelsea House Pub, April 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Eighteen essays discuss the works of Rudolfo Anaya, Pedro Juan Soto, Bernice Zamora, Fray Angelico Chavez, Ana Castillo, and other notable Hispanic American authors

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9780791076972 | Chelsea House Pub, December 1, 1998, cover price $26.60 | About this edition: -- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights -- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers

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9780791096239 | New edition (Chelsea House Pub, November 1, 2008), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Offers critical perspectives on the many Hispanic authors who have staked out a vibrant and burgeoning presence on the American literary scene.

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