This essay examines the theme of afrodominicanidad in the poetry of Dominican women writing in Spanish in the United States. Although the topic of African heritage in Dominican...

This article examines the pioneering work of Ernesto Galarza on Mexican children’s literature in Spanish in the United States. Between 1971 and 1973, he wrote twelve books almost equally divided...

The nineteenth-century Cuban population of Jacksonville, Florida, is featured in such noted texts from the island as Autobiografía del cubano Luis de Radillo y Rodríguez (1899...

The Itinerary of Juan de Oñate's expedition (1598) and the Historia de la Nueva México (1610) by Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá are distinct in their styles and purposes. The Itinerary is an official...

Gaspar de Villagrá’s Historia de la nveva Mexico (1610) has lingered on the margins of U.S. literary history for centuries. Embraced as a source of historical information, the...

The prose fiction of Helena María Viramontes has been praised for its formal experimentation in language, narrative structure and point of view, thus for techniques that distinguish a generation...