Alurista | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Bruce-Nova, Juan. “Alurista.” In Chicano Authors: Inquiry by Interview, pp. 265-87. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980.

Interview in which Alurista discusses his life, politics, art, philosophy, and other writers.

Leal, Luis. “In Search of Aztlán.” The Denver Quarterly 16, No. 3 (Fall 1981): 16-22.

Traces the development of the symbols used for creating a consciousness of Chicano nationalism by figures like Alurista and the farm labor organizer César Chávez.

Ybarra-Frausto, Thomas. “Alurista's Poetics: The Oral, The Bilingual, The Pre-Columbian.” In Modern Chicano Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays, pp. 117-32. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1979.

Details the elements which compose Alurista's poetry, and examines the part Alurista intends his poetry to play, politically and culturally in the Chicano movement, for...

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