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A Luis Leal reader

"Bringing together a representative selection of Leal's writings from the past sixty years, this volume, edited by the distinguished cultural critic Ilan Stavans, is at once a wide-ranging introduction to the most influential scholar of Latino literature and a critical history of the field as it emerged and developed through the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 2007
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 461 pages ; 24 cm.
9780810124189, 0810124181
122291628
Introduction: The day I was Luis Leal
In search of Aztlán
A historical perspective
The problem of identifying Chicano literature
Into the labyrinth
Truth-telling tongues
Lo real maravilloso in Nuevo México
The Spanish-language press
El paso y la huella
Bernardo de Balbuena
Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá
La Conquistadora
Félix Varela
Miguel Antonio Otero
Mariano Azuela
María Cristina Mena
José Rubén Romero
Pedro Henríquez Ureña
Octavio Paz
Juan Rulfo
Carlos Fuentes
José A. Montoya
Tomás Rivera
Américo Paredes
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
Rudolfo Anaya
Sandra Cisneros
La Malinche
Other female archetypes
Mexico's centrifugal culture
Aspects of the Mexican novel
Magic realism
African influences
Tlatelolco, Tlatelolco
The ugly American
Octavio Paz and the chicano
Mirror, mirror
Beyond myths and borders
Includes index