Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno

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Hispanic immigrant Literature Joe R. and TeResa Lozano Long seRies in LaTin ameRican and LaTino aRT and cuLTuRe Hispanic immigRanT LiTeRaTuRe El Sueño del Retorno by nicoLás kaneLLos univeRsiTy of Texas pRess Austin All photos and illustrations are courtesy of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, University of Houston. Copyright © 2011 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2011 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/bpermission.html ♾ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso Z39.48-1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of congress cataLoging-in-pubLication Data Kanellos, Nicolás. Hispanic immigrant literature : el sueño del retorno / by Nicolás Kanellos. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-292-72640-6 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-292-72996-4 (E-book) 1. American literature—Hispanic American authors—History and criticism. 2. Immigrants’ writings, American—History and criticism. 3. Hispanic Americans in literature. 4. Emigration and immigration in literature. 5. Immigrants in literature. I. Title. ps153.H56k35 2011 860.9'868073—dc22 2011003822 for aLL tHe immigrants i grew up witH anD as aLways for my Loving wife, cristeLia, anD my beLoveD son, migueL José. THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...