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); Martí...

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...

This article examines the ways in which Judith Ortiz Cofer and Esmeralda Santiago use their memoirs to explore issues of identity, race, and gender as essential components of a transnational...

Patricia Cardoso’s Real Women Have Curves (2002) opened to widespread critical acclaim and moderate commercial success, garnering two awards at the Sundance film festival for its starring...

Este estudio pretende re-examinar la autobiografía escrita por chicanos y chicanas de la década de los 90 cuando surgió una cantidad valiosa de escritos con ese enfoque. Primero discute cómo la...

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...