Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States

Nicolás Kanellos (Ed.)

Editorial: University of Houston • 1990

• Fecha y firma en página de respeto. / Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States includes representative works by the most celebrated Cuban-American, Mexican-American and Puerto Rican writers of short fiction in the country. The texts cover a full range of expression, themes and styles of U.S. Hispanics and are introduced by informative entries which place the authors in their cultural and historic frameworks. In these pages, the reader will not find picturesque, folksy or touristy renditions of Hispanic culture. Instead, Short fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States brings together works that are clear, incisive and authentic representations of Hispanic life in the United States. The selections are as diverse as Hispanic culture itself and as varied as the personalities of their authors. To be found side-by-side here are Mac Martínez’s outrageous challenge of racial and social structures, Roberta Fernández’s construction of Hispanic women’s aesthetics, Robert Fernández’s subversion of the English language, Nicholasa Mohr’s humorous attack on patriarchy, Judith Ortiz Cofer’s poetic evocation of childhood and biculturalism, and much more.