U.S. Latino literature today

Native Introduction Poetry Taos Pueblo Indians : 700 strong according to Bobby's last census / Miguel Algarín el sarape de mi personalidad / Alurista Martín III / Jimmy Santiago Baca Belonging / Rafael Campo Refugee ship / Lorna Dee Cervantes Marina mother / Lucha Corpi Affirmations #3, take off your mask / Sandra María Esteves These days / Ray González Loisaida / Victor Hernández Cruz The hyphenated man / Carolina Hospital Lessons in semantics / Angela de Hoyos AmeRícan / Tato Laviera Legal alien / Pat Mora Ending poem / Rosario Morales, Aurora Levins Morales A lower East side poem / Miguel Piñero Wet camp / Alberto Álvaro Ríos I am America / Luis Omar Salinas Chicano dropout / Tino Villanueva Prose Secret Latina at large / Veronica Chambers Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer The Hammon and the beans / Américo Paredes Dichos / Patricia Preciado Martín Zoo Island / Tomás Rivera On becoming / Nelly Rosario Dallas / Rosaura Sánchez Senior picture day / Michelle Serros Prologue to Seven long times / Piri Thomas Birthday / Helena María Viramontes Desert vista / Richard Yañez Essay La Güera / Cherríe Moraga Exile / Benjamín Alire Sáenz Drama Los Vendidos / Luis Valdez

Exile and immigration Introduction Poetry United States / Marjorie Agosín Nocturnal visits / Claribel Alegría América / Richard Blanco Nicaragua / Tomás Borge The Campesinos go down the roads / Pablo Antonio Cuadra Federico's ghost ; Revolutionary Spanish lesson / Martín Espada Self-portrait / Isaac Goldemberg The dog / Víctor Montejo Hymn of exile / José María Heredia Bilingual blues / Gustavo Pérez Firmat A song for Wall Street / Salomón de la Selva Prose All I thought about was Disneyland / Alicia Alarcón Snow from How the García girls lost their accents / Julia Alvarez Toward Patzún / Arturo Arias Immigrants / Aurora Levins Morales Prelude from Testimony : death of a Guatemalan village / Víctor Montejo The one-flower slippers from The little school / Alicia Partnoy Spared Angola / Virgil Suárez Essay The politics of Exile / Claribel Alegría Our America / José Martí Drama El súper / Iván Acosta

Transcultural

Introduction

Poetry

Somewhere between Houston and El Paso / Carolina Monsisváis

Tango for the broom / Sandra Cisneros

Huitlacoche crepes / Alicia Gaspar de Alba

The Illiterati / Tony Medina

Night cruising / Radames Ortiz

Las a-e-i-o-u's de los ums seeking tongues of migratin' letras que ain't no way hiding / Ruth Irupé Sanabria

Spoken word poetry

Intensidad - Ñ / Brenda Cárdenas

Lengualistic algo / Olga Angelina García

Cumbia de salvación / Leticia Hernández-Linares

Jetties were the bridges I crossed / Nancy Mercado

Peeping Tom-Tom girl / Marisela Norte

My Name is not Rodriguez / Luis J. Rodríquez

The seven African gods / Frank Varela

The reinvention of zero / robertkarimi

Prose

Tino ; Piojos / Norma Cantú

Aguantando / Junot Díaz

La Quebrada / Rigoberto González

Señoritas in love / Jaime Manrique

Crossing the border from Diary of an undocumented worker / Ramón "Tianguis" Pérez

Miami International Airport / Roberto Quesada

Drama

Simply María or The American dream / Josefina López

Essay

How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa

Danger zone : cultural relations between Chicanos and Mexicans at the end of the century / Guillermo Gómez Peña

Questions to consider

Chronology.