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Literature of American Latinos“we did not come to the United States at all, the United States came to us.ˮ -
some Latinos claim they are not immigrants, because they live there even
before the white settlers came to America
Key events:1848 Mexican-American war (mexicans lost, lost their territory Texas)
1898 spanish-american war - new gains in Carribean world
19471991 cold war
Key features of literature:
surrealism and magical realism
fragmentation or episodes
child protagonists
language and code-switching (changing registers - colloquial to more
literary English)
testimonio (autobiographical materials)
Notable authors:
Luis Valdezchicano playwright
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El Teatro Campesino, The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa, Zoot Suit
Sandra CisnerosMexican-American Author
The house on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
very popular, simple language
questions of identity (male, female, lesbian)
Ana Castilloalso a geminist and activist in the 1970s
The Mixiquilahuala Letters, So Far So Good
epistolary novel
Junot Díazdominican-American author
Short story collections
The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao (itʼs a short story, won a Pullitzer Prize)
American Short story: Recent
Developmentbecomes very important - booming
often published in prestigious american magazines
Short story definition
short story = focuses on a single effect conveyed in only one
or a few significant episodes or scenes, form encourages
economy of setting, concise narrative, omission of the
complex plot, character is disclosed in action and dramatic
encourter is seldom fully developed. Despite its relatively
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limited scope, short story often provides a complete of
satisfying treatment of its characters and subject
types:
1 realistic short story (focused on external realities)
2 modernist short story (subjective, consciousness, states of mind,
focalization, more focused on feelings, thoughts)
two types of short stories in the 20th centurya) plot oriented (conflict, climax, surprising resolution): OʼHenry
b) anti-plot, modernist
Sherwood: his own aim was to achieve form, not plot, although form was
more elusive and difficult
examples: Heminghway: A clean, well-lighted place (little physical action,
struvture around psychological conflict)
1980s OʼHenry, Fitzgerald - plot-oriented
then Sherwood Anderson, Hemighway - minimalism
everything that can be omitted and left out IS LEFT OUT
minimalists: Carver, Tobias Wolff, Amy Hempel, Ann Beattie, Mary Robinson
three principles of minimalist: efficiency, allusion and implication through
omission
Raymond Carver (1938-1988 Oregon-Northwest)Will you please be quiet, please?
What we talk about when we talk about love
Cathedral
Amy Hempel
The most girl part of you - easy read
Tobias Wolff
neorealist, director of Stanford University
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Back in the World, The Night in the Question
Bullet in the Brain, a White Bible (recommended by Peprnik - short stories)