Things we do not talk about
Subtitle: exploring latino/a literature through essays and interviews
By: Daniel A. Olivas
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: San Diego State University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: San Diego, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781938537059
Subjects: American literature; Hispanic American authors; History and criticism; Theory; Mexican American authors; Interviews; Hispanic Americans; Intellectual life; Mexican Americans; Hispanic Americans in literature; Mexican Americans in literature; Latin American literature
Other titles: Exploring latino literature; Exploring latina literature
Description: "Daniel A. Olivas explores Latino/a literature at the dawn of the 21st century. While his essays address a broad spectrum of topics from the Mexican-American experience to the Holocaust, Olivas always returns to queries that have no easy answers-questions about writing and Chicano identity; literature; and the politics of everyday life, among others. Olivas has explored similar questions through almost a decade's worth of interviews with Latino/a authors. Olivas dives deep to discover how these authors create prose and poetry while juggling families, facing bigotry, struggling with writer's block, and deciphering a fickle publishing industry"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.