San Antonio College Library

Suggests ways to utilize Latino works in the classroom, providing profiles of Latino authors, contextual information about the literary and cultural significance of individual works, and critical essays on the themes the works address.

Critical perspectives on works by Rudolfo A. Anaya, Nash Candelaria, and Richard Rodriquez.

"Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while also defining what it means to be Hispanic in the United States. Immigrant literature uses predominantly the language of the homeland; it serves a population united by that language, irrespective...

"Delia Poey compares the risks facing teachers and interpreters of well-known Latina/o and Latin American texts with those run by the "coyote" who smuggles undocumented workers across the U.S./Mexico border: both are in danger of erasing those cultural traits that made the border crossers important." "Poey shows that these texts have yet to be fully mainstreamed into the curricula, and that teachers of multicultural literature inadvertently re-colonize...

This book outlines the major historical experiences that inform the literature; the important genres, periods, movements and authors in its evolution; the traditions and influences that shape the works; and key critical issues.

"These critical essays, written specifically for instructors in literature courses, focus on longer works of prose in each of the four major ethnic literatures of the United States: Native American, Mexican American, Asian American, and African American. Each essay is accompanied by bibliographies and pedagogical strategies for helping students appreciate texts from a variety of cultures and traditions." "Instructors of broad survey courses will find...

In "The Ties That Bind" editor and author Sara E. Cooper eschews the 'usual suspect' lineup of Freud, Marx, Saussure, Levi-Strauss, etc. for a different flavor of psychologically oriented literary criticism. Introduced to Family Systems Therapy (FST) in grad school, Ms. Cooper has extended the earlier critical work in literatures in English and family systems therapy to Hispanic fiction. This collection of critical essays explores the family system...