CHICANO/CHICANA READS
Included are anthologies, fiction, short stories, and poetry
by Chicano/a authors and/or about Chicanos/as. Each book
includes title, author, call number (where to find it at Uni!),
and a short description from NoveList. Click on the headings
to jump to a particular section.
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
The House of Spirits
Allende, Isabel
Fiction AL543c:E 2005
Traces the lives of the Truebas, beginning with clairvoyant Clara del Valle's
summoning of the man she intends to marry, ambitious Esteban Trueba, and
following their participation in the history of their times which is their destiny.
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.
Red Glass
Resau, Laura
Fiction R311r
Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature
birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey though Mexico,
where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to
Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and
plans to remain.
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.
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.
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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