List of Mexican American writers

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Chicano literature tends to focus on themes of identity, discrimination, culture, and history, with an emphasis on validating the Mexican American experience or Chicano culture in the United States. Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales's "Yo Soy Joaquin" is one of the first examples of Chicano poetry. Other important writers in the genre include Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto and Oscar Zeta Acosta. Literature on the History of Chicanos can be found in "Occupied America" authored by Rodolfo Acuña,which offers an alternative perspective of history from the Mexican American/Chicano point of view.

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[edit] Mexican American literature

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[edit] List of Mexican American writers

[edit] A-C

[edit] D-J

  • Adina de Zavala, author of several books about the Alamo, published in the early decades of the 20th Century
  • Lorenzo de Zavala
  • Abelardo Delgado, author of Letters to Louise (1982)[1]
  • Mike Durán, author of Don't Split on My Corner (1991)[1]
  • Sergio Elizondo, author of story collection Rosa, la flauta (1980) and the novels Muerte en una estrella (1987) and Suruma (1991)[1]
  • Conrado Espinoza, author of El Sol de Texas (Under the Texas Sun) (1926)
  • Roberta Fernández, novelist
  • Gregory Thomas Garcia
  • Lionel G. Garcia, author of Leaving Home (1985), A Shroud in the Family (1987), Hardscrub (1989), Brush Country (2004), The Day They Took My Uncle and Other Stories, and other books[1]
  • José L. Garza, author of collection Writing and Art (1989)[1]
  • Laurence Gonzáles, author of Jambeaux (1979), The Last Deal (1981), and El Vago (1983)[1]
  • Rodolfo Gonzales
  • Genaro González, author or Rainbow's End (1988) and the story collection Only Sons (1991)[1]
  • Jovita González Mireles, past president of the Texas Folklore Society and author of Dew on the Thorn, Caballero, A Historical Novel and numerous transcribed tales, collected in The Woman Who Lost Her Soul and Other Stories
  • Rigoberto González
  • José Ángel Gutiérrez
  • Maria Hinojosa
  • Rolando Hinojosa, novelist
  • Arturo Islas, novelist

[edit] K-N

  • Gary Keller (author), author of collection Tales of El Huitlacoche (1984)[1]
  • Patricia Preciado Martín, author of collection Days of Plenty, Days of Want (1988)[1]
  • Al Martínez, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist; author of Ashes in the Rain: Selected Essays (1990)[1]
  • Eliud Martínez, author of Voice Haunted Journey (1991)[1]
  • Max Martínez, author of Schooland (1988) and the collections The Adventures of the Chicano Kid and Other Stories (1982) and A Red Bikini Dream (1989)[1]
  • Hugo Martínez-Serros, author of the collection The Last Laugh and Other Stories (1988)[1]
  • María Cristina Mena, author of Boy Heroes of Chapultepec: A Story of the Mexican War (1953), The Two Eagles (1943), The Bullfighter's Son (1944), and numerous short stories
  • Miguel Méndez, novelist
  • Jim Mendiola
  • Pat Mora
  • Cherríe Moraga
  • Alejandro Morales, author of Old Faces and New Wine (1981), Death of an Anglo (1988), Reto en el Paraiso (1983), The Brick People (1988), and The Rag Doll Plagues (1991)[1]
  • Alejandro Murguía, author of the collection Southern Front (1991)[1]

[edit] O-R

  • Julian Nava
  • J. L. Navarro, author of the collection Blue Day on Main Street (1973)[1]
  • Josefina Niggli, author of Mexican Village (1945)[1]
  • Berta Ornelas, author of Come Down from the Mound (1975)[1]
  • Felipe de Ortego y Gasca
  • Sheila Ortiz Taylor, author of Spring Forward/Fall Back (1985)[1]
  • Miguel Antonio Otero Jr., author of The Real Billy the Kid: With New Light on the Lincoln County War (1936)
  • Américo Paredes
  • Ireneo Paz
  • Luiz Perez
  • Cecile Piñeda, author of Frieze (1986)[1]
  • Mary Helen Ponce, author of The Wedding (1989) and the collection Taking Control (1987)[1]
  • Estela Portillo Trambley (1936-1998), author of Trini (1986), the play The Day of the Swallows (1971) and the collection Rain of Scorpions and Other Writings (1975) for which she became the first woman to receive the Quinto Sol Literary Prize.[1] She also held the President Chair in Creative Writing at UC Davis. [2]
  • Katherine Quintana Ranck, author of Portrait of Doña Elena (1983)[1]
  • John Rechy
  • Alberto Ríos
  • Isabella Ríos, author of Victuum (1976)[1]
  • Tomás Rivera
  • Alfredo Rodríguez, author Estas tierras (1983; Palabra Nueva prize winner)[1]
  • Joe Rodríguez, author of Oddsplayer (1988)[1]
  • Luis J. Rodriguez
  • Richard Rodriguez
  • Orlando Romero (author), author of Nambé-Year One (1976)[1]
  • María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, author of the novels The Squatter and the Don (1885) and Who Would Have Thought It? (1872)

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at Marc Zimmerman, U.S. Latino Literature: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography, MARCH/Abrazo, 1992.
  2. ^ Enotes biography

[edit] See also

Literature Portal

[edit] External references

  • Marc Zimmerman, U.S. Latino Literature: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography, MARCH/Abrazo, 1992.
  • Teresa McKenna, "Chicano Literature," in Redefining American Literary History, Ed. A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, MLA, 1990.

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