Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Literature in the United States: The Literature of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Other Hispanic Writers

This dictionary provides a reference guide to representative figures in Hispanic literature within the geographic, political and cultural boundaries of the United States. While concentrating on contemporary writers who have made or promise to make a lasting contribution to multi-ethnic letters in the USA, it is designed to make accessible to the English-language reader a literary world that has until now been articulated primarily in Spanish. Focusing mainly on Puerto Rican and Cuban writers, each entry summarizes the importance of the subject and indicates the literary genres and themes cultivated. There is a brief biography of each author, an analysis of major works and themes and a survey of the criticism of the author’s works. This detailed sourcebook is a compilation of bio-bibliographical essays on leading Hispanic novelists, poets and dramatics, and includes secondary bibliographies for each entry as well as a general bibliography on Hispanic Miguel Pinero, winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play; Chilean novelist, critic and editor Fernando Alegria; the Cuban-American chronicler of life in Miami’s exile community, Roberto Fernandez, and others. This work answers a need for comprehensive biographical and critical information on these writers.