U.S. Latino/a Literature

U.S. LATINO/A LITERATURE

"Making Revistas from Scratch: The Role of Revista Chicano-Riqueña and the Bilingual Review / Revista Bilingüe in Shaping the Field of Latina/o Studies." Diálogo: An Interdisciplinary Studies Journal 20.2 (2017): 19-31.

"Silén, Iván." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature. Nicolás Kanellos, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. 1056-59.

"Mapping the Trans/Hispanic Atlantic: Nuyol, Miami, Tenerife, Tangier." Border Transits: Literature and Culture across the Line. Ana M. Manzanas, ed. New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 205-22.

"The Raw and Who Cooked It: Food, Identity, and Culture in U.S. Latino/a Literature." U.S. Latino Literatures and Cultures: Transnational Perspectives. Francisco A. Lomelí, and Karin Ikas, eds. Heidelberg (Germany): Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2000. 37-51.

"A Sense of (Dis)place(ment): Tato Laviera's AmeRícan Identity." Monographic Review XV (1999): 262-72.

"Aesthetic Concepts of Hispanics." Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Literature and Art. Francisco A. Lomelí, ed. Houston, Texas: Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana-Arte Público Press, 1993. 109-33.

"Iván Silén: Una poética de la alteridad." Hispania 75.2 (May 1992): 301-09.

"Iván Silén." Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Literature in the United States: The Literature of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Other Hispanic Writers. Nicolás Kanellos, ed. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. 289-99.

The study of Chicana/o literature is naturally complemented by that of the rest of U.S. Latino/a literatures, with which it shares experiences, some history, aesthetic concepts, and bilingualism, among other elements. My work in this field has concentrated on the construction of alternative identities, diaspora, and language. Though some of my publications are broad in scope, I have paid particular attention to two poets of Puerto Rican origin: Iván Silén, and Tato Laviera.