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 economic and cultural change.

Additional coverage of Alurista's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 45-48, 182; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 2, 32; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 82; Hispanic Writers; and Hispanic Literature Criticism Supplement.