George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexan Novel
10 best books like George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexan Novel (Américo Paredes): Bless Me, Ultima, Ceremony, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, Woman Hollering Creek & The House on Mango Street, ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, The Moths and Other Stories, My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
| Author | Rudolfo Anaya |
| ISBN | 0446675369 |
Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima enters his life. She is a curandera, one who heals with herbs and magic. 'We cannot let her live her last days in loneliness,' says Antonio's mother. 'It is not the way of our people,' agrees his father. And so Ultima comes to live with Antonio's family in New Mexico....
| Author | Leslie Marmon Silko |
| ISBN | 0140086838 |
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy...
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...
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,...
Tomas Rivera's original Spanish-language novel plus a new translation into English by Evangelina Vigil-Pinon. ...y no se lo trago la tierra won the first national award for Chicano literature in 1970 and has become the standard literary text for Hispanic literature classes throughout the country....
| Author | Oscar Zeta Acosta |
| ISBN | 0679722122 |
The further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas" -- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.
Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's...
| Author | Manuel Muñoz |
| ISBN | 1565125320 |
Manuel Munoz's dazzling collection is set in a Mexican-American neighborhood in central California-a place where misunderstandings and secrets shape people's lives. From a set of triplets with three distinct fates to a father who places his hope-and life savings-in the hands of a faith healer,...
| 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...
| 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...
