A Luis Leal reader.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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9780810124189

A Luis Leal reader.

Leal, Luis. Ed. by Ilan Stavans.

Northwestern U. Press

2007

461 pages

$36.95

Hardcover

Latino voices

PQ7114

According to Stavans (Latin American and Latino culture, Amherst College), Luis Leal has, since his first publication in 1942, "done more than any other writer or scholar to foster the critical appreciation of Mexican and Chicano literature and was instrumental in establishing ...

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