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Junior and his family move from the barrio to a better part of El Paso in the 1950s, but they must live in the basement of their new house while they attempt to raise their standard of living.
A collection of twenty-one short stories in English and Spanish that demonstrate the changes and developments that have occured in the Chicano literary tradition over the last twenty years.
Known as the ñChicano NationÍs cultural attach?î and the ñChicano Renaissance Man,î Cecilio GarcÕa-Camarillo served as a central figure in the flourishing of artistic creativity in the late 1960s and the 1970s known as the Chicano Movement. As a publisher, editor, and radio personality, he brought to the publicÍs attention literary works and people that have since become legend, lore, and canon. He exerted cultural leadership not only through his editing of El MagazÕn, Caracol, and Rayas, but in his total dedication to his own poetry, which appeared sparsely in his magazines, but largely in his own hand-stitched chapbooks and through his preferred medium: oral performance. Ironically...
"A satirical account of the cultural wars on the Mexican-American border"--Provided by publisher"--
Contains thirty-six short works by and about Mexican Americans, including such authors as Daniel Garza, Sandra Cisneros, and Mario Suarez.
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A genre-hopping narrative, Luz chronicles the ill-timed love between a naive academic and a manic- depressive journalist as they uncover corrupt extraction politics in South Texas.
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