Rolando Hinojosa

Author : Joyce Glover Lee
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1574410237

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Rolando Hinojosa and the American Dream by Joyce Glover Lee Pdf

Rolando Hinojosa is a Texas writer with his sense of place centered in the Texas Valley, a world in itself and a place recognizable as a discrete community. But Hinojosa's work transcends the regional, transcends the Valley, transcends Texas, while it remains rooted in all three. Hinojosa is treated here from the perspective of his place in the mainstream of American literature and with his attempts to write works that speak to a large and more diverse audience, rather than from the perspective of his place within the world of Texas-Mexican literature. Joyce Lee does not neglect the regional aspects of Hinojosa's works, but puts them into the context of what they say about the vitality of American culture at large and about the Mexican culture's variations of the American Dream. Covers Hinojosa's full-length books-- Dear Rafe, Klail City, The Useless Servants, The Valley, Partners in Crime, and Rites and Witnesses --as well as his essays and articles.

Author : Héctor Calderón
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292705824

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Narratives of Greater Mexico by Héctor Calderón Pdf

Once relegated to the borders of literature—neither Mexican nor truly American—Chicana/o writers have always been in the vanguard of change, articulating the multicultural ethnicities, shifting identities, border realities, and even postmodern anxieties and hostilities that already characterize the twenty-first century. Indeed, it is Chicana/o writers' very in-between-ness that makes them authentic spokespersons for an America that is becoming increasingly Mexican/Latin American and for a Mexico that is ever more Americanized. In this pioneering study, Héctor Calderón looks at seven Chicana and Chicano writers whose narratives constitute what he terms an American Mexican literature. Drawing on the concept of "Greater Mexican" culture first articulated by Américo Paredes, Calderón explores how the works of Paredes, Rudolfo Anaya, Tomás Rivera, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Cherríe Moraga, Rolando Hinojosa, and Sandra Cisneros derive from Mexican literary traditions and genres that reach all the way back to the colonial era. His readings cover a wide span of time (1892-2001), from the invention of the Spanish Southwest in the nineteenth century to the América Mexicana that is currently emerging on both sides of the border. In addition to his own readings of the works, Calderón also includes the writers' perspectives on their place in American/Mexican literature through excerpts from their personal papers and interviews, correspondence, and e-mail exchanges he conducted with most of them.

Author : Rolando Hinojosa
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611923271

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We Happy Few by Rolando Hinojosa Pdf

In the tragicomic novel, We Happy Few, internationally recognized author Rolando Hinojosa takes us inside the politics of a tumultuous university campus set in a quiet university town on the Texas-Mexico border. The chaotic politics of faculty promotions and tenure, the zany protests of a student group representing the majority Mexican-American ethnic group on campus, and the complex work of a search committee to replace a high-level university administrator unfold at Belken State University in Klail City, Texas. From the offices of deans and professors to those of familiar power brokers such as banker Arnold ñNoddyî Perkins and police chief Rafe Buenrostro, and even to the State House in Austin, Hinojosa sets up a beguiling game of life„and death. Racism and political machinations raise the stakes in the battle for the future of the university, the outcome of which will decide the fate of the faculty, staff, and especially the students, who place their hope for advancement in education. With We Happy Few, Hinojosa once again invites readers to observe the goings-on in his quixotic literary landscape, which the New York Times compared to Gabriel GarcÕa MàrquezÍs Macondo and William FaulknerÍs Yoknapatawpha.

Author : Rolando Hinojosa
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611921929

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Klail City by Rolando Hinojosa Pdf

Klail City is the pivotal novel in HinjosaÍs continuing saga, the Klail City Death Trip Series. It is concerned with power as articulated through the disjunctive class and race relations between Texas Mexicans and Texas Anglos in the lower Rio Grande Valley. In his desire to help recreate the kaleidoscopic past, Hinojosa employs four generations of storytellers who thoroughly mesmerize the reader with their tales of tragic realism, alienation and desire. Klail City (in its Spanish version) is the winner of Latin AmericaÍs most prestigious literary award, the Casa de las Am?ricas Prize. It has been published in German and now, HinojosaÍs own English-language version is available. Rolando Hinojosa is the best known and most prolific Mexican American novelist. His works, which form a continuing, ever-evolving saga of life in the small border towns in TexasÍs lower Valley, are acclaimed for their fine sense of wit and pathos and their ability to capture the nuances of oral language.

Author : Jaime Armin Mejía
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004465980

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Transformations in Rolando Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip Series by Jaime Armin Mejía Pdf

Author : Mary Louise Espinosa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Mexican American literature (Spanish)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002288178

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Rolando Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip Series as an Historical Novel of Place by Mary Louise Espinosa Pdf

Author : Rolando Hinojosa
Publisher : Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173003908456

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The Valley by Rolando Hinojosa Pdf

"In these vignettes set in the fictional county of Belken along the Texas-Mexico border in the early to mid-twentieth century, Rolando Hinojosa sketches a landscape of Mexican Texans and Anglo Texans living side by side, in good times and bad"--Publisher.

Author : Dagoberto Gilb
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0826341268

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Hecho en Tejas by Dagoberto Gilb Pdf

Gilb has created more than a literary anthology--this is a mosaic of the cultural and historical stories of Texas Mexican writers, musicians, and artists.

Author : Alan Bilton
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814799123

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An Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction by Alan Bilton Pdf

Don DeLillo, Paul Auster, Cormac McCarthy, Rolando Hinojosa, E. Annie Proulx, Bret Easton Ellis, Douglas Coupland, and Thomas Pynchon: An Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction introduces the work of a range of key American authors, all of whom can be said to engage with postmodernism. Exploring the vitality and energy of contemporary writing in light of pessimistic proclamations on the state of postmodern American culture, Bilton highlights the tension between "realistic" description and linguistic self-consciousness in contemporary fiction. In addition, by addressing a central problem in literary theory—its neglect of literary discussion and the practice of reading—An Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction is able to present a working model for reading a text theoretically. As an introductory text, it assumes no prior knowledge of the authors of the novels discussed. To encourage understanding and aid further study, the following features are included: * GLOSSARY OF CRITICAL AND LITERARY TERMS * BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EACH AUTHOR'S WORKS * BIOGRAPHY OF EACH AUTHOR * GUIDE TO FURTHER READING * THEMATIC AND AUTHOR INDICES

Author : Roberto Cantú
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527568648

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Homecoming Trails in Mexican American Cultural History by Roberto Cantú Pdf

This volume brings together a number of critical essays on three selected topics: biography, nationhood, and globalism. Written exclusively for this book by specialists from Mexico, Germany, and the United States, the essays propose a reexamination of Mexican American cultural history from a twenty-first century standpoint, written in English and approached from different analytical models and critical methods, but free of theoretical jargon. The essays range from biographies and memoirs by leading Chicano historians and studies of globalism during the rule of Imperial Spain (1492-1898), to the modern rise and global influence of the United States, particularly in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean. Also included are critical studies of novels by Chicano, Latin American, and Caribbean writers who narrate and represent the dominant role played by the United States both within the nation itself and in the Caribbean, thus illustrating the historical parallels and relations that bind Latinos and Americans of Mexican descent. This book will be of importance to literary historians, literary critics, teachers, students, and readers interested in stimulating and unconventional studies of Mexican American cultural history from a global perspective.

Author : Francisco A. Lomelí,Donaldo W. Urioste,María Joaquina Villaseñor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781442275492

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Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature by Francisco A. Lomelí,Donaldo W. Urioste,María Joaquina Villaseñor Pdf

U.S. Latino Literature is defined as Latino literature within the United States that embraces the heterogeneous inter-groupings of Latinos. For too long U.S. Latino literature has not been thought of as an integral part of the overall shared American literary landscape, but that is slowly changing. This dictionary aims to rectify some of those misconceptions by proving that Latinos do fundamentally express American issues, concerns and perspectives with a flair in linguistic cadences, familial themes, distinct world views, and cross-cultural voices. The Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has cross-referenced entries on U.S. Latino/a authors, and terms relevant to the nature of U.S. Latino literature in order to illustrate and corroborate its foundational bearings within the overall American literary experience. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this subject.

Author : Hector Avalos Torres
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0826340881

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Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Writers by Hector Avalos Torres Pdf

Interviews with major Chicana/o authors are the basis for this examination of the commonality of issues in the work of each of them.

Author : Michelle Hall Kells
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civil rights workers
ISBN : 0809388057

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Héctor P. García by Michelle Hall Kells Pdf

Author : Christina Soto van der Plas,Lacie Rae Buckwalter Cunningham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798216183907

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Latino Literature by Christina Soto van der Plas,Lacie Rae Buckwalter Cunningham Pdf

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.

Author : Nicol‡s Kanellos
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611922860

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Short Fiction By Hispanic Writers of the United States by Nicol‡s Kanellos Pdf

Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States includes representative works by the most celebrated Cuban-American, Mexican-American and Puerto Rican writers of short fiction in the country. The texts cover a full range of expression, themes and styles of US Hispanics and are introduced by informative entries which place the authors in their cultural and historic frameworks. In these pages, the reader will not find picturesque, folksy or touristy renditions of Hispanic culture. Instead, Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States brings together works that are clear, incisive and authentic representations of Hispanic life in the United States. The selections are as diverse as Hispanic culture itself and as varied as the personalities of their authors. Here are Max Mart’nezÕs outrageous challenge of racial and social structures, Roberta Fern‡ndezÕs construction of Hispanic womenÕs aesthetics, Roberto Fern‡ndezÕs subversion of the English language, Nicholasa MohrÕs humorous attack on patriarchy, and Judith Ortiz CoferÕs poetic evocation of childhood and biculturalism. This collection engages in aesthetic and cultural experience that will result in a re-defined canon and a new identity for the country as whole. They are re-focusing our perception of ourselves as a people and a culture. The pressure and the commitment to do so, of course, make for excellence and innovation in literary expression. It also makes for enjoyable reading. Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States is recommended for the general fiction reader and for use in high school and college literature classes in search of a multicultural perspective.