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Introduction: An American Literary Tradition | |
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Editor's Note | |
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca | |
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The Account [1542/1555] | |
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Inca, Garcilaso de la Vega | |
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Florida [1605] | |
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Gaspar Perez de Villagra | |
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The History of New Mexico [1610] | |
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Fray Mathias Saenz de San Antonio | |
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Lord, If the Shepherd Does Not Hear [1724] | |
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Unknown Author | |
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The Comanches [ca. 1780] | |
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Francisco Palou | |
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The Historic Account of the Life and Apostolic Work of the Venerable Fray Junipero Serra [1787] | |
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Jose Maria Heredia | |
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Niagara [1824] | |
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Eulalia Perez | |
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An Old Woman Remembers [1877] | |
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Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton | |
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The Squatter and the Don [1885] | |
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Jose Marti | |
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A Vindication of Cuba [1889] | |
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Simple Verses [1891] | |
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Pachin Marin | |
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New York from Within [1892] | |
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In the Album of an Unknown Woman [1892] | |
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Improvisation [1892] | |
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Eusebio Chacon | |
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The Son of the Storm [1892] | |
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Unknown Author | |
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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez [ca. 1901] | |
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Leonor Villegas de Magnon | |
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The Rebel [ca. 1920] | |
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William Carlos Williams | |
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To Elsie [1923] | |
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All the Fancy Things [1927] | |
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Arthur A. Schomburg | |
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Jose Campeche 1752-1809 [1934] | |
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Bernardo Vega | |
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Memoirs of Bernardo Vega [ca. 1944] | |
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Josephina Niggli | |
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Mexican Village [1945] | |
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Mario Suarez | |
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Cuco Goes to a Party [1947] | |
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Julia de Burgos | |
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Returning [1947] | |
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Farewell in Welfare Island [1953] | |
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Cleofas Jaramillo | |
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Romance of a Little Village Girl [1955] | |
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Pedro Juan Soto | |
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God in Harlem [1956] | |
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Jose Antonio Villarreal | |
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Pocho [1959] | |
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Americo Paredes | |
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The Hammon and the Beans [1963] | |
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John Rechy | |
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City of Night [1963] | |
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Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales | |
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I Am Joaquin [1967] | |
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Piri Thomas | |
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Down These Mean Streets [1967] | |
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Victor Hernandez Cruz | |
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Today Is a Day of Great Joy [1969] | |
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African Things [1973] | |
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Alurista | |
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el maguey en su desierto [1971] | |
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must be the season of the witch [1971] | |
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to be fathers once again [1971] | |
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Tomas Rivera | |
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...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him [1971] | |
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Rudolfo Anaya | |
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Bless Me, Ultima [1972] | |
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Oscar "Zeta" Acosta | |
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The Revolt of the Cockroach People [1973] | |
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Nicholasa Mohr | |
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Nilda [1973] | |
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Pedro Pietri | |
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Puerto Rican Obituary [1973] | |
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Miguel Pinero | |
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Short Eyes [1974] | |
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A Lower East Side Poem [1980] | |
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Dolores Prida | |
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Beautiful Senoritas [1977] | |
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Luis Valdez | |
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Zoot Suit [1978] | |
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Tato Laviera | |
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My Graduation Speech [1979] | |
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AmeRican [1985] | |
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Sandra Maria Esteves | |
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From the Commonwealth [1979] | |
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A la Mujer Borrinquena [1980] | |
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Lourdes Casal | |
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For Ana Veldford [1981] | |
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Lorna Dee Cervantes | |
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Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War Between the Races [1981] | |
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Visions of Mexico While at a Writing Symposium in Port Townsend, Washington [1981] | |
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Richard Rodriguez | |
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Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez [1982] | |
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Edward Rivera | |
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Family Installments: Memories of Growing Up Hispanic [1982] | |
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Cherry Moraga | |
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A Long Line of Vendidas [1983] | |
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Loving in the War Years [1983] | |
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Helena Maria Viramontes | |
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The Moths [1985] | |
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Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales | |
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Ending Poem [1986] | |
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Rolando Hinojosa | |
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Dona Sostenes [1987] | |
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Gloria Anzaldua | |
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Borderlands/La frontera: The New Mestiza [1987] | |
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Sandra Cisneros | |
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Woman Hollering Creek [1991] | |
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Cristina Garcia | |
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Dreaming in Cuban [1992] | |
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Judith Ortiz Cofer | |
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American History [1993] | |
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Guard Duty [1993] | |
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Oscar Hijuelos | |
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The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien [1993] | |
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Selected Additional Reading | |
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About the Editors | |