Latino/A Children's and Young Adult Writers on the Art of Storytelling

Children's and young adult literature has become an essential medium for identity formation in contemporary Latino/a culture in the United States. This book is an original collection of more than thirty interviews led by Frederick Luis Aldama with Latino/a authors working in the genre. The conversations revolve around the conveyance of young Latino/a experience.

About the author

Frederick Luis Aldama, aka Professor Latinx, is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab at the University of Texas, as well as adjunct Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University. He is an award-winning author of dozens of books as well as editor of nine academic press book series. His fiction includes the children's books The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie and Con Papá/With Papá.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Luis Aldama
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780822964971
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6497-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 213 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: Latino and Latin American Prof; Latino and Latin American Profiles; Latino and Latin American Profiles; Latinx and Latin American Prof; Latinx and Latin American Profiles
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies