Long Stories Cut Short - Fictions from the Borderlands

Informationen zum Autor Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at The Ohio State University. He is founder and director of LASER, a mentoring and research hub for Latinos (ninth grade through college), selected as a 2015 Bright Spot in Hispanic Education by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. An expert on Latino popular culture, Aldama is the author, co-author, and editor of twenty-six books, including Your Brain on Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez and The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez . Klappentext Xbox videogamer cholo cyberpunks. Infants who read before they talk. Vatos locos! romancing abuelos! border crossers and border smugglers! transvestites! drug kingpins! philosophically musing tweens! and so much more. The stories in this bilingual prose-art collection touch on the universals of romance! family! migration and expulsion! and everyday life in all its zany configurations.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Luis Aldama, Frederick Luis/ Shua Aldama
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780816533978
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3397-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Camino del Sol; Camino del Sol: A Latina and L; Camino del Sol; Camino del Sol: A Latina and L
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature