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Anthologies | Fiction | Poetry | Short Stories

 

 

Anthologies

 

    Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a Literature

    Ed. Cristina Garcia

    869.108 B644 cop.2

 

    In Bordering Fires, the first anthology to combine writing from both sides of the

    Mexican-U.S. border, Cristina Garc’a presents a richly diverse cross-cultural

    conversation. Beginning with Mexican masters such as Alfonso Reyes and Juan

    Rulfo, Garc’a highlights historic voices such as “the godfather of Chicano literature”

    Rudolfo Anaya, and Gloria Anzaldœa, who made a powerful case for language

    that reflects bicultural experience. From the fierce evocations of Chicano reality

in Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Poem IX to the breathtaking images of identity in Coral Bracho’s poem

“Fish of Fleeting Skin,” from the work of Carlos Fuentes to Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo to Octavio

Paz, this landmark collection of fiction, essays, and poetry offers an exhilarating new vantage point

on our continent–and on the best of contemporary literature.

 

 

    America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories

    Ed. Anne Mazer

    813 Am35 1993

 

    Fourteen short stories about growing up in America's diverse society. Written by

    such authors as Robert Cormier, Langston Hughes, Lensey Namioka, Grace Paley,

    Gary Soto, and Michele Wallace, they range from powerful to poignant to

    downright hilarious. Readers will come away from this collection understanding

    what it is like to be a migrant worker, an African-American child in a white

school, or a Jewish child cast in a Christmas pageant. (School Library Journal)

 

 

Aztlan: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature

Eds. Luis Valdez and Stan Steiner

917.3 V233a cop.2

 

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Fiction

 

 

    Bless Me, Ultima

    Anaya, Rudolfo

    Fiction An188 1999

 

    Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima enters his life. She is a curandera, one who

    heals with herbs and magic. 'We cannot let her live her last days in loneliness,' says

    Antonio's mother. 'It is not the way of our people,' agrees his father. And so Ultima comes

    to live with Antonio's family in New Mexico. Soon Tony will journey to the threshold of

manhood. Always, Ultima watches over him. She graces him with the courage to face childhood bigotry,

diabolical possession, the moral collapse of his brother, and too many violent deaths. Under her wise guidance,

Tony will probe the family ties that bind him, and he will find in himself the magical secrets of the pagan

past—a mythic legacy equally as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America in which he has been

schooled. At each turn in his life there is Ultima who will nurture the birth of his soul.

 

 

 

    The House on Mango Street

    Cisneros, Sandra

    Fiction C497h 1991

 

    Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the

    story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh

    beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to

    the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming

    into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.

 

 

    How to Be a Chicana Role Model

    Serros, Michele

    Fiction Se688h

 

    A collection of short stories reveals a young Chicano writer's determination to find laughter

    in struggling between two cultures without losing her identity.

 

 

 

 

 

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Poetry

 

    Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States

    Ed. Lori M. Carlson

    811.08 C77c

 

    Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning

    the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences

    of that double life. Here are poems about families and parties, insults and sad memories,

    hot dogs and mangos, the sweet syllables of Spanish and the snag-toothed traps of English.

    Here is the glory, and pain, of being Latino American.

 

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Short Stories

 

    Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

    Cisneros, Sandra

    Fiction C497w 1992

 

    A collection of stories, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both

    sides of the Mexican border. The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery,

    filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.

 

 

 

 

 

    An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio

    Ed. Judith Ortiz Cofer

    Fiction C137an 1996

 

    Twelve stories about young people caught between their Puerto Rican heritage and

    their American surroundings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Join in: Multiethnic Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults

    Ed. Donald R. Gallo

    813.08 J667 1993

 

    Here are seventeen original short stories that reflect young adults' views on friendships

    and prejudice, expectations and disappointments, and connections and confrontations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Growing Up Chicana/o

    Ed. Tiffany Ana Lopez

    810.8 G919 1993

 

    A collection of stories by twenty Mexican Americans deal with the issues of

    growing up Chicana/o.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Finding Our Way

    Saldana, Jr., Rene

    Fiction Sa319f

 

    A collection of stories about young Mexican Americans living through the hardships of

    being a teenager but never losing their way.

 

 

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