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...

This article seeks to present an overview of Dominican-related dissertations produced in the United States from 1939 to 2009. All dissertations that are known to deal in any way with Dominican...

This article explores the enigma or the question of inspiration. In Historia de la nueva México, 1610, Gaspar de Villagrá includes an episode that features an encounter with Mómpil an...

In an attempt to integrate scholarly outlooks around what has been called “ethnic testimony”, this article posits the view that autobiography and literary fiction are so intrinsically connected...