Martín & Meditations on the South Valley
10 best books like Martín & Meditations on the South Valley (Jimmy Santiago Baca): Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, Loving in the War Years, Woman Hollering Creek & The House on Mango Street, Woodcuts of Women, Drink Cultura: Chicanismo, Loverboys, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, Hairs/Pelitos, George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexan Novel, The Moths and Other Stories
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
| Author | Sandra Cisneros |
| ISBN | 0679738568 |
Last year I read Sandra Cisneros' House on Mango Street and felt an affinity toward her as I discovered that she grew up on the northwest side of Chicago and attended the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Mostly an autobiographical account, Mango Street detailed the coming of age of a Mexican American...
| Author | Cherríe L. Moraga |
| ISBN | 0896086267 |
Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, Loving in the War Years has been a classic in the feminist and Chicano canon since its 1983 release. This new edition—including a new introduction and three new essays—remains a testament of Moraga's...
Woman Hollering Creek & The House on Mango Street
| Author | Sandra Cisneros |
| ISBN | 0679412107 |
I love Sandra Cisneros' writing. It's whimsical, observational, funny, and perfectly bilingual.
My favorite story from this collection is Eleven (found on page 6). "What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine,...
| Author | Dagoberto Gilb |
| ISBN | 0802138748 |
Dagoberto Gilb is an acknowledged master of the short story, the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, and a PEN/Faulkner finalist for his debut collection, The Magic of Blood, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his fiction writing. His critically acclaimed collection Woodcuts of Women is...
| Author | José Antonio Burciaga |
| ISBN | 1877741078 |
This book is about the Chicano experience of living within, between and sometimes outside of two cultures--the damnation and salvation, and the celebration of it all.
"In some ways a book Erma Bombeck might have written, that is, if she were from El Paso, dressed in Tony Lama boots, and full...
| Author | Ana Castillo |
| ISBN | 0393331679 |
“Seductive… full of infectious vigor… these stories demand, above all, to be listened to.”―New York Times Book Review
From Ana Castillo, the widely praised author of So Far from God and The Guardians, comes this collection of stories on the experience of love in all its myriad...
Authored by one of the most influential and highly-regarded voices of Chicano history and ethnic studies, Occupied America is the most definitive introduction to Chicano history. This comprehensive overview of Chicano history is passionately written and extensively researched.With a concise...
| Author | Sandra Cisneros |
| ISBN | 0679890076 |
This jewel-like vignette from Sandra Cisneros's best-selling The House on Mango Street shows, through simple, intimate portraits, the diversity among us.
A Dragonfly Book in English and Spanish.
A Parenting Magazine Best Children's Book of the Year
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| Author | Américo Paredes |
| ISBN | 1558850120 |
In the 1930's, Americo Paredes, the renowned folklorist, wrote a novel set to the background of the struggles by Texas Mexicans to preserve their property, culture, and identity in the face of Anglo-American migration to and growing dominance over the Rio Grande Valley. For his epic novel Paredes...
| Author | Helena María Viramontes |
| ISBN | 1558851380 |
Fiction. THE MOTHS AND OTHER STORIES, Helena Maria Viramontes' stories exploring women's struggles to overcome the dictates of family, culture, and church, is in a new edition. Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop for these haunting stories, but their...
My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems
| Author | Sandra Cisneros |
| ISBN | 0679418210 |
This is the book and the poet responsible for me becoming totally hooked on poetry. I think it had a lot to do with the familiarity of the subject of the poems, growing up in working class Latino neighborhoods, the culture and just surviving the ever present cruelty of childhood.
Beautiful free...
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
| Author | Juan González |
| ISBN | 0140255397 |
The only reason it gets three instead of four or five stars is, while I like Gonzalez's intent to steer clear of composing a text written in what he terms the "safari approach" (meaning a text geared toward the Anglo -- i.e. non-Latino -- reader in which the writer guides the reader toward knowledge of the...
Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders
| Author | Alicia Gaspar De Alba |
| ISBN | 1558854460 |
Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders Alicia Gaspar de Alba, March 31, 2005, ISBN 1-55885-446-0, Clothbound, $23.95 An incisive mystery that delves into the violent deaths of young women plaguing the US / Mexico border It�s the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies...
| Author | Ana Castillo |
| ISBN | 0385420137 |
Focusing on the relationship between two fiercely independent women--Teresa, a writer, and Alicia, an artist--this epistolary novel was written as a tribute to Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch and examines Latina forms of love, gender conflict, and female friendship. Ana Castillo's groundbreaking...
