Latinx writing Los Angeles : nonfiction dispatches from a decolonial rebellion /

Latinx Writing Los Angeles offers a critical anthology of Los Angeles's most significant English-language and Spanish-language (in translation) nonfiction writing from the city's inception to the present. Contemporary Latinx authors, including three Pulitzer Prize winners and writers such...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: López-Calvo, Ignacio (Editor), Valle, Victor M. (Editor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press [2018]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt21kk1rh
Table of Contents:
  • LA's Latina/o phantom nonfiction and the technologies of literary secrecy / Victor Valle
  • Decolonizing Latina/o nonfiction in LA's writing / Ignacio López-Calvo and Victor Valle
  • "With the amicable people of Ensenada de Palmas": excerpt from Breve relación de la nueva entrada al sur, en la copiosa gentilidad de la nación de los coras ..., por el padre / Ignacio María Napoli, S.J.
  • The public outcry. Noteworthy pamphlet / Francisco P. Ramírez
  • The repercussions of a lynching / Ricardo Flores Magón
  • To womankind, a manifesto / Blanca de Moncaleano
  • Exerpt from "The Memoirs of Alfredo Cobos" / Alfredo Cobos
  • Exerpts from The Journals of Anaïs Nin
  • Bert Corona's "Struggle Is The Ultimate Teacher" / Jesús Mena
  • Beach blanket baja / Helena María Viramontes
  • "The 'good old mission days' never existed: excerpt from The Medicine of Memory: A Mexican Clan in California / Alejandro Murguía
  • Light at the end of tunnel vision: in memory of Gerardo Velázquez and Ray Navarro / Harry Gamboa Jr.
  • "Deported to the north": excerpt from Dangerous Border Crossings: The Artist Talks Back / Gullermo Gómez-Peña
  • Lights / Nylsa Martínez
  • Movie version: "Hell to eternity" / Sesshu Foster
  • Americanismo: city of peasants, Los Angeles, California / Héctor Tobar
  • "The boy left behind": excerpt from Enrique's Journey / Sonia Nazario
  • My father's house / Rubén Martínez.