U.S. Latino literature: a critical guide for students and teachers

Literary strategies in Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's The account / Harold Augenbraum

Trials and tribulations: the life and works of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton / Beatrice Pita

Piri Thomas' Down these mean streets: writing as a Nuyorican/Puerto Rican strategy for survival / Asela Rodríguez de Laguna

Un mundo entero: Tomás Rivera and his world / Evangelina Vigil-Piñón

Historical and magical, ancient and contemporary: the world of Rudolfo A. Anaya's Bless me, Ultima / Margarite Fernández Olmos

The self as cultural metaphor: Oscar "Zeta" Acosta's The autobiography of a brown buffalo / Genaro M. Padilla

Adapting, not assimilating: Edward Rivera's Family installments / Alfredo Villanueva-Collado

Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of memory and the rejection of the private self / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert

Teaching Oscar Hijuelos' Our house in the last world / Gustavo Pérez Firmat

Female voices in Sandra Cisneros' The house on Mango Street / Myrna-Yamil González

The Dominican-American bildungsroman: Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia girls lost their accents / Heather Rosario-Sievert

In context: Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera: the new Mestiza / Hector A. Torres

Writing a life: When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago / Aileen Schmidt

Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Latin deli / Rafael Ocasio

Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban: the contested domains of politics, family, and history / Iraida H. López

Junot Díaz's Drown: revisiting "those mean streets" / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert

Using Latina poetry in the classroom / Bryce Milligan

Borders and birthrights: watching Cheech Marin's Born in East L.A. / Chon A. Noriega.