Recently added articles from Bilingual Review:
Illness, observation, and contradiction: intertext and intrahistory in Alejandro Morales's The Captain of All These Men of Death.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Numerous critics have marked Alejandro Morales's controversial career by its shift from the experimental novel to historical fiction as well as by what Morales himself describes as the connection between intrahistory and intertextuality (Grandjeat 111). Additionally, Antonio C. Marquez has ...
Representations of Mexican American migrant childhood in Rivera's ... y no se lo trago la tierra and Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus.(Tomas Rivera)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... There are few authors more hallowed and respected in the field of Mexican American literature than Tomas Rivera. His life and writing were cut tragically short by a heart attack in 1984 when he was forty-eight, but his work continues to be widely read. Central to his prominence is his ...
Santitos: simbolismo y representacion del espacio de Tijuana.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Welcome to Tijuana tekila, sexo y mariguana. --Manu Chao, Clandestino Maria Amparo Escandon se inicia como escritora a la temprana edad de dieciseis anos cuando aun se encontraba en su tierra natal, la Ciudad de Mexico. Al principio los temas principales en su obra ...
Solving Guzman's problem: "an other" narrative of La gran familia puertorriquena in Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Line of the Sun.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The first half of Judith Ortiz Cofer's novel The Line of the Sun (1989) narrates events that take place in the small fictional town of Salud, Puerto Rico, during the 1940s and 50s. In the second part of the novel, starting with chapter six, we see how two characters from the first hall, ...
Of Chicharrones and clam chowder: gender and consumption in Jorge Ulica's cronicas diabolicas.(domestic life of Mexican immigrants )(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Si los hombres casados quieren ser menos infelices ... no deben venir, con sus consortes, a los United States. Pueden cruzar la frontera solos, dejando a sus respectivas mitades allende el Bravo, lo mas "allende" que puedan, a muy respetuosa distancia. Porque aqui andan las cosas muy mal y ...
Cantos in context.(Bilingual Press hires Francisco Aragon as periodical editor for the series Canto Cosas)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, a subunit of Arizona State University's Hispanic Research Center (HRC), is delighted to inaugurate a much-needed publishing resource in Latina/o poetry. Francisco Aragon has recently agreed to assume the editorship of our new series, Canto Cosas. We ...
Las cucarachas.(Poems)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Pre> LAS CUCARACHAS Roaches sniffWith their twostrands of hairaround the kitchenand slip throughthe cereal box-topsas easily as any envelopeslides beneath a door.They munch on dry comflakes you thoughtwere raisin bran.In ...
Whitman.(Poems)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Pre> WHITMAN For evening walks in the city, I carry a book in my pocket--dusty pages of bark set out in the sun. The avenues run with the traffic grind, clang of cable carspulling downtown, smoke scattered everywhere. The boy at the newsstand packs to go home; ...
Abuelo y sus cuentos: Origin of the Bird-Beak Mole.(Poems)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Pre> ABUELO Y SUS CUENTOS: ORIGIN OF THE BIRD-BEAK MOLE Abuelito, what's that on your arm??Este? This little bump? Si, ?que es?Pues, oye, un dia cuando era joven estaba trabajando en un jardin bellisimo cuando lo and behold a little bird ...
Adentro.(Poems)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Pre> ADENTRO La guerra empieza aqui mismo en mi calle.Empieza conmigo la guerra.Veo sus armas en los ojos de un nino,su cara en los ventanales.Hay veces que quiero la guerra.Me acuesto con ella.Le sobo la espalda.Hay veces que se mete en mi casa ...
Within Me.(Poems)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Pre> WITHIN ME War begins right here on my street.It begins with me.I see her weapons in the eyes of a child,her face on windowpanes.There are times I want war.I lie down with her.I stroke her back.There are times she enters my houseand I ...
Testing Positive.(Poems)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Pre> TESTING POSITIVE The universe at times is simply that which liesabove--often a naked lightbulb disturbs.Larvae make their earth in a chest of blond-wood drawers; winter breaks and a sweaterslips over me--a fabric thin with holes.Above me, men's eyes ...
Thirteen-Foot Ladders.(Short story)
Jan 01, 2008; ... I am a dishwasher in the city only because I couldn't find work at home and got tired of the university. I'm working a double and it just began to die down a little after the late afternoon crowd; however, they tell me today is the second busiest day of the year, next to Mother's Day, and ...
Mas Exodus: The Lives of Latinos in Small American Towns.(Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Tobar, Hector. Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States. NY: Riverhead Books, 2005. 320 pp. Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States is an informative and valuable narrative of ...
Parental perceptions on maintaining heritage languages of CLD students.(culturally and linguistically diverse)
May 01, 2003;
Language and politicized spaces in U.S. Latino prison poetry: 1970-1990.
May 01, 2003;
Historia y solidaridad femenina en la cuentistica de Rosario Ferre.
May 01, 2003;
De mito musical a icono femenino chicano: la figura de Selena en la pelicula de Gregory Nava.(Biography)
May 01, 2003;
An aficionado's view: the Latino dimension of the Hopalong Cassidy Films.
May 01, 2003;
Secrets.(Short Story)
May 01, 2003;