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NEW! Announcing This Year's One Brown Book, One Nation Selection In Commemoration of Hispanic Heritage Month:

Bless Me, Ultima
by
Rudolfo Anaya

In Memoriam:

Edgardo Vega Yunque
May 20, 1936 - August 25, 2008

Book Review
of the Month:

Crazy Loco Love
by
Victor Villasenor

Need a Speaker?
See what they're saying about poetry readings & presentations by Jose B. Gonzalez:

"Thank you for your humanity, your warmth, ... everybody was buzzing about your presentation."
Professor Kevin McGarvey, Cumberland County College

"I was knocked off my feet by your speech and poetry."
Jackie Hammond, Norwich Otis Library

"Your presentations aren't simply lectures--they're events!"
Julie Johnson, University of Nevada Las Vegas

"There was never a dull moment. I had nothing but great feedback from the people who attended this event."
David Collazo, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation

Created by John S. Christie, Ph.D. and Jose B. Gonzalez, Ph.D., Co-Editors of Latino Boom:An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature, this site is for:

Students conducting research on Latino literature.
Faculty who have incorporated Latino Boom into their classrooms.
Readers who are eager to learn more about literature written by the largest minority group in the U.S.

Latino Boom Resource Guide:

What faculty and critics are saying about Latino Boom:

"... a very attractive text to be adopted by any expert in the field."
Jason Cortés, UMass Boston

"comprehensive ... well-documented and researched ... very ambitious, well-constructed."
Alicia Hernandez, Rio Hondo College

"This is a text that no one teaching Latino literature should be without."
Elizabeth Garcia, Connecticut College, Centro Journal Book Review

Full Text to Latino Fiction and the Modernist Imagination by John S. Christie, Ph.D.:

`Chapter 1`	`Chapter 2`	`Chapter 3`	`Chapter 4`	`Chapter 5`	`Chapter 6`	WORKS CITED PAGE
`Part I`	`Part I`	`Part I`	`Part 1`	`Part I`	`Part I`
`Part II`	`Part II`	`Part II`	`Part II`	`Part II`	`Part II`
	`Part III`	`Part III`	`Part III`		`Part III`

One of the first full-length academic studies of U.S. Latino Literature (published by Garland Press in 1998), available only on LatinoStories.com. Chapters on:

1) The Narrative Techniques of the Border 2) The "Magic" of Influence Upon Latino Narrative 3) Latino Voices and "English Con Salsa"4) Dreams & Betrayals: Latinos Between Worlds
5) Carnival & the Department Store Called "America"
6) Flowers of the Dead: The Latino Quest for Ancestors

Copyright 2006 LatinoStories.com design and content by John S. Christie and Jose B. Gonzalez
Copyright 2006 Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature, Pearson Education, Inc.
Copyright 2006 Latino Fiction and the Modernist Imagination, John S. Christie