Luis Leal

Luis Leal
Author: Mario T. García
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0292779992

Professor Luis Leal is one of the most outstanding scholars of Mexican, Latin American, and Chicano literatures and the dean of Mexican American intellectuals in the United States. He was one of the first senior scholars to recognize the viability and importance of Chicano literature, and, through his perceptive literary criticism, helped to legitimize it as a worthy field of study. His contributions to humanistic learning have brought him many honors, including Mexico's Aquila Azteca and the United States' National Humanities Medal. In this testimonio or oral history, Luis Leal reflects upon his early life in Mexico, his intellectual formation at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, and his work and publications as a scholar at the Universities of Illinois and California, Santa Barbara. Through insightful questions, Mario García draws out the connections between literature and history that have been a primary focus of Leal's work. He also elicits Leal's assessment of many of the prominent writers he has known and studied, including Mariano Azuela, William Faulkner, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Tomás Rivera, Rolando Hinojosa, Rudolfo Anaya, Elena Poniatowska, Sandra Cisneros, Richard Rodríguez, and Ana Castillo.

Luis Leal

Luis Leal
Author: Salvador Güereña
Publisher: Chicano Studies Library
Total Pages: 138
Release: 1988
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Chicano Scholars and Writers

Chicano Scholars and Writers
Author: Julio A. Martínez
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1979
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810812055

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Ibero-American Letters in a Comparative Perspective

Ibero-American Letters in a Comparative Perspective
Author: Wolodymyr T. Zyla
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1978
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Ibero-American Letters in a Comparative Perspective is an analysis of various aspects of Ibero-American letters and comprises of the proceedings of the Tenth Annual Comparative Literature Symposium held on 26 to 28 January 1977.

Historical Dictionary of Chile

Historical Dictionary of Chile
Author: Salvatore Bizzarro
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 1135
Release: 2017-02-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442276355

This two-volume Historical Dictionary of Chile covers the economy and the environment, political parties and history, and reprehensible period of dictatorship during a crucial time in Chile’s history. The end of the iron-fist rule of Augusto Pinochet, who ruled from 1973 until 1990, however, allowed a return to democratic rule, and the country kept searching for coherence and unity in national life among diverse and often discordant elements. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Chile contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Chile.