Alejandro Morales
Alejandro Morales is a professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and has published seven novels and three novellas. Morales received the 2007 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. The Award organizer said of Morales, "he is a true pioneer in Chicano literature and one of the most outstanding, powerful, and innovative writers on the Chicano experience."[1]
Works
- Caras viejas y vino nuevo (1975) J. Mortiz, Mexico OCLC 2374645 published in English (1981) as Old Faces and New Wine, Maize Press, San Diego OCLC 8131156
- La Verdad sin voz (1979), published in English (1988) as Death of an Anglo.
- Reto in Paraiso (1983), a mix of Spanish and English.
- The Brick People (1988) Arte Publico Press, Houston, Texas ISBN 978-0-93477-091-0
- The Rag Doll Plagues (1992)
- Barrio on the Edge (1997)
- Waiting to Happen (2001) - the first volume of the Heteropia Trilogy
- Pequeña Nación (2005) - three short novels
- The Captain of All These Men of Death (2008) Bilingual Press, Tempe, AZ ISBN 978-1-93101-040-5
- Little Nation and Other Stories (2014). Trans. Adam Spires. Houston: Arte Público Press.
- River of Angels (2014). Houston: Arte Público Press.
References
- ↑ Mario Garcia in a 2007 UCSB press release for the Luis Leal award located at http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1638
Further reading
- Franco, Dean. "Working through the Archive: Trauma and History in Alejandro Morales's The Rag Doll Plagues." PMLA 120.2 (2005): 375-87.
- García-Martínez, Marc. The Flesh and Blood Aesthetics of Alejandro Morales: Disease, Death, and Figuration. San Diego: San Diego State University Press, 2014.
- Gurpegui, José Antonio (ed.). Alejandro Morales: Fiction Past, Present, Future Perfect. Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Review Press, 1996.
- López Lozano, Miguel. "The Politics of Blood: Miscegenation and Phobias of Contagion in Alejandro Morales's The Rag Doll Plagues." Aztlán 28 (2003): 39-74.
- Priewe, Marc. "Bio-Politics and the ContamiNation of the Body in Alejandro Morales' The Rag Doll Plagues." MELUS 29.3-4 (2004): 397-412.
- Rosales, Jesús. La narrativa de Alejandro Morales: Encuentro, historia y compromiso social. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.
- Schedler, Christopher. "Bugs in the Capitalist Machine: The Schizo-Violence of Alejandro Morales's The Brick People." MELUS 32.1 (2007): 53-74.
- Spires, Adam. "Brave New Aztlán: Toward a Chicano Dystopia in the Novels of Alejandro Morales." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 29.2 (2005): 363-78.
- Villalobos, José Pablo. "Border Real, Border Metaphor: Altering Boundaries in Miguel Méndez and Alejandro Morales." Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 4 (2000): 131-40.
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