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Created by John S. Christie, Ph.D. and Jose B. Gonzalez, Ph.D., Co-Editors of Latino Boom:An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature, this site is for:

*   Students conducting research on Latino literature.
*   Faculty who teach Latino Literature.
*   Readers who are eager to learn more about literature written by the largest minority group in the U.S. 

Latino Boom Resource Guide:
Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8


What faculty and critics are saying about Latino Boom:

"... a very attractive text to be adopted by any expert in the field."
 Jason Cortés, UMass Boston

 "comprehensive ... well-documented and researched ... very ambitious, well-constructed."
 Alicia Hernandez, Rio Hondo College

"This is a text that no one teaching Latino literature should be without."
 Elizabeth Garcia, Connecticut College, Centro Journal Book Review

 
Full Text to Latino Fiction and the Modernist Imagination by John S. Christie, Ph.D.:
One of the first full-length academic studies of U.S. Latino Literature (published by Garland Press in 1998), available only on LatinoStories.com.  Chapters on:
    1) The Narrative Techniques of the Border
   2) The "Magic" of Influence Upon Latino Narrative
   3) Latino Voices and "English Con Salsa"
   4) Dreams & Betrayals: Latinos Between Worlds
   5) Carnival & the Department Store Called "America"
   6) Flowers of the Dead: The Latino Quest for Ancestors
 
 
 


 

  Congratulations to Co-Editor, Jose B. Gonzalez, for being named a 2012 Fulbright Scholar to Spain and for signing a contract with Bilingual Press for a collection of poetry tentatively titled "Brown Beat Nor'easter," scheduled for release toward the end of 2012. Jose has been featured in American Latino TV and has continued to be popular speaker throughout the U.S.  He is scheduling engagements for the fall of 2012.
 
 
 
 

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