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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 | |