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List Of Mexican-American Writers
The following is a list of Mexican-American writers. A-C *Oscar Zeta Acosta * José Acosta Torres, author of collection ''Cachito Mía'' (1973)Marc Zimmerman, ''U.S. Latino Literature: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography'', MARCH/Abrazo, 1992. * Rodolfo Acuña * Ricardo Aguilar, author of short story collection ''Madreselvas en flor'' (1987) * Justo S. Alarcón, Spanish author of stories about Chicanos, ''Chulifeas fronteras'' (1981) * Kathleen Alcala *Alurista *Rudolfo Anaya, author of children's book '' Bless Me, Ultima'' *Gloria E. Anzaldúa, author of '' Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza'' and co-author of '' This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color'' *Ron Arias * Jimmy Santiago Baca, author and poet * Raymond Barrio, author of '' The Plum Plum Pickers'' (1969) * Irene Beltrán Hernández, author of ''Across the Great River'' (1989) * Aristeo Brito, author of ''El diablo en Texas'' (''The Devil in Texas'', bilingual ed. 1991) * José Antonio Burci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Zeta Acosta
Oscar "Zeta" Acosta Fierro (; April 8, 1935 – disappeared 1974) was a Mexican-American attorney, politician, novelist and activist in the Chicano Movement. He was most well known for his novels ''Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo'' (1972) and ''The Revolt of the Cockroach People'' (1973), and for his friendship with American author Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson characterized him as a heavyweight Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in his 1971 novel ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas''. Acosta disappeared in 1974 during a trip in Mexico and is presumed dead. Life and career Oscar Acosta was born in El Paso, Texas, to Manuel and Juanita (''née'' Fierro) Acosta, from Mexico and El Paso, respectively. He was the third child born but second to survive childhood. Acosta had an older brother, Roberto, born in 1934. After the family moved to California, the children were raised in the small San Joaquin Valley rural community of Riverbank, near Modesto. Acosta's father was drafted during Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucha Corpi
Lucha Corpi is a Chicana poet and mystery writer. She was born on April 13, 1945 in Jaltipan, Veracruz, Mexico. In 1975 she earned a B.A. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1979 she earned a M.A. in comparative literature from San Francisco State University. Corpi's most important contribution to Chicano literature, a series of four poems called "The Marina Poems ," appeared in the anthology ''The Other Voice: Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry in Translation'', which was published by W. W. Norton & Company, in 1976 (). She tends to write her short stories in English and her poems in Spanish. Personal life and career Corpi's family was from the southern part of Veracruz. Her paternal grandparents were Italian, Hispanic with Native American ancestry; of her maternal grandparents, one was surnamed Constantino and the other was three-quarters Mexican.''Blues City'' by Ishmael Reed. Crown Journeys. 2003. Her family insisted she and her six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel, ''The House on Mango Street'' (1983), and her subsequent short story collection, ''Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories'' (1991). Her work experiments with literary forms that investigate emerging subject positions, which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, was awarded one of 25 new Ford Foundation Art of Change fellowships in 2017, and is regarded as a key figure in Chicano literature. Cisneros' early life provided many experiences she later drew on as a writer: she grew up as the only daughter in a family of six brothers, which often made her feel isolated, and the constant migration of her family between Mexico and the United States instilled in her the sense of "always ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Chavez
Denise may refer to: * Denise (given name), people with the given name ''Denise'' * Denise (computer chip), a video graphics chip from the Amiga computer * "Denise" (song), a 1963 song by Randy & the Rainbows * Denise, Mato Grosso, a municipality in Brazil * ''Denise'', an 1885 play by Alexander Dumas ''fils'' * SP-350 Denise, a small submarine also known as the "Diving saucer" * A brand name of desogestrel See also * Hurricane Denise, a list of tropical cyclones named Denise * Saint Denise (other) *Denice (other) Denice Denice is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about southwest of Alessandria. As of 30 June 2017, it had a population of 175 and an area of .All ... * Denyse, a given name {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelico Chavez
Angelico Chavez, O.F.M. (April 10, 1910 – March 18, 1996), was an Hispanic American Friar Minor, priest, historian, author, poet and painter. "Angelico" was his pen name; he also dropped the accent marks from this name. Early life Born the first of ten children to Fabián Chávez and María Nicolasa Roybal de Chávez in Wagon Mound, New Mexico, Chavez was baptized with the name Manuel Ezequiel. He was a 12th-generation New Mexican, whose family had been in the area since the first Spanish settlement of 1598. In 1912, his family moved to San Diego, California, where his father worked for the Panama-California Exposition. The missions he was exposed to in California inspired him to follow in the footsteps of Junípero Serra and the other missionaries to the Native Americans. Education Returning to New Mexico, Chavez attended public schools in Mora, staffed by members of the Sisters of Loretto. In 1924, at the age of 14, Chavez was admitted to St. Francis Seminary in Mount Hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Lorna Dee Cervantes (born August 6, 1954) is an American poet and activist, who is considered one of the greatest figures in Chicano poetry. She has been described by Alurista, as "probably the best Chicana poet active today." Early life Cervantes was born in 1954 in the Mission District of San Francisco, to parents of Mexican and Native American (Chumash) ancestry. After her parents divorced when she was five, she grew up in San Jose with her mother, grandmother and brother. She grew up speaking English exclusively. This was strictly enforced by her parents, who allowed only English to be spoken at home by her and her brother. This was to avoid the racism that was occurring in her community at that time. This loss of language and a struggle to find her true identity inspired her poetry later on in life. She attended Abraham Lincoln High School. She received an Associate Arts degree from San Jose Community College in 1976, and a BA in Creative Arts from San José State U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael C
Rafael may refer to: * Rafael (given name) or Raphael, a name of Hebrew origin * Rafael, California * Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israeli manufacturer of weapons and military technology * Hurricane Rafael, a 2012 hurricane Fiction * ''Rafael'' (TV series), a Mexican telenovela * ''Rafaël'' (film), a 2018 Dutch film People * Rafael (footballer, born 1978) (Rafael Pires Vieira), Brazilian football striker * Rafael (footballer, born 1979) (Rafael da Silva Santos), Brazilian football defender * Rafael (footballer, born 1980) (Rafael Pereira da Silva), Brazilian football right-back * Rafael (footballer, born March 1982) (Rafael de Andrade Bittencourt Pinheiro), Brazilian football goalkeeper * Rafael (footballer, born August 1982) (Rafael dos Santos Silva), Brazilian football striker * Rafael (footballer, born 1984) (Alberto Rafael da Silva), Brazilian football goalkeeper * Rafael (footballer, born 1986) (Rafael Diego de Souza), Brazilian football centre-back * Rafael (f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
So Far From God
''So Far from God'' is a novel written by Ana Castillo, first published in 1993 by W. W. Norton & Company. It is set in a town in New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Tiguex , OfficialLang = None , Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ke ... called Tome and revolves around the lives of Sofia and her four daughters: Esperanza, Fe, Caridad and La Loca. The novel addresses themes such as rebellion, spirituality and gender. Since the novel combines different styles of literature including poetry, folk literature, social and political commentaries, absurdist techniques and postmodern fragmentation, it is multi-generic and therefore cannot be classed with one specific genre.Manríquez, B. J. "Ana Castillo's ''So Far from God'': Intimations of the Absurd". ''College Literature''. Vol. 29 No. 2 (Spring 2002) 38. Plot At the age of eigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo (born June 15, 1953) is a Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar. Considered one of the leading voices in Chicana experience, Castillo is known for her experimental style as a Latina novelist. Her works offer pungent and passionate socio-political comment that is based on established oral and literary traditions. Castillo's interest in race and gender issues can be traced throughout her writing career. Her novel ''Sapogonia'' was a 1990 ''New York Times'' Notable Book of the Year, and her text ''So Far from God'' was a 1993 ''New York Times'' Notable Book of the Year. She is the editor of ''La Tolteca'', an arts and literary magazine. Castillo held the first Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Endowed Chair at DePaul University. She has attained a number of awards including a 1987 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for her first novel, ''The Mixquiahuala Letters'', a Carl Sandburg Award, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celso A
Celso is a given name, a variant of Celsus. It may refer to: People * Celso Sozzini (1517-1570), Italian freethinker * Celso Mancini (1542-1612), Italian Roman Catholic prelate * Celso Zani (1580-unknown), Italian Roman Catholic prelate * Celso Golmayo Zúpide (1820-1898), Spanish-Cuban chess player * Celso Caesar Moreno (1830-1901), Italian adventurer and political figure * Afonso Celso, Viscount of Ouro Preto (1836-1912), Brazilian politician and last Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil * Celso Ceretti (1844-1919), Italian anarchist and socialist politician * Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini (1876-1958), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal * Celso Lagar (1891-1966), Spanish painter * Celso de Freitas (1912-1970), Guyanese cricketer * Celso Emilio Ferreiro (1912-1979), Spanish Galicianist activist writer and politician * Celso Peçanha (1916-2016), Brazilian politician, lawyer and journalist * Celso Furtado (1920-2004), Brazilian economist * Celso Brant (1920-2004), Brazilian politici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norma Elia Cantú
Norma Elia Cantú (born January 3, 1947) is a Chicana postmodernist writer and the Murchison Professor in the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Early life and education She was born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, to Florentino Cantú Vargas and Virginia Ramon Becerra. She was reared in Laredo in Webb County, Texas, and attended public schools there. Cantú received her AA degree from Laredo Community College in 1970. She received her bachelor of science degree in English and political science from Texas A&I University at Laredo, now Texas A&M International University in Laredo, from which she graduated summa cum laude in 1973. She received her master of science degree in English with a minor in political science from Texas A&I University‑Kingsville in 1976 and her PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1982. She has been on the faculty of Texas A&M International University, the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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