Lucas Guevara

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Text in Spanish. Facsimile edition with illustrations. "Lucas Guevara" is the first Spanish-language novel of immigration to the United States. Published in the United States in 1914 by Colombian emigre Diaz Guerra, the novel establishes the structure and formula that numerous other Spanish-language narratives produced in this country would take up over the course of the twentieth century. The introduction by Nicolas Kanellos and Irma Liz Hernandez trace the authors development as a writer and present "Lucas Guevara" in the context of Hispanic history and immigrant literature.

Product details

• Authors: Alirio Diaz Guerra, Alirio Diaz Guerra
• Publisher: Arte publico press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9781558853256
• ISBN: 978-1-55885-325-6
• No. of pages: 311
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 376 g
• Series: Recovering the U.S. Hispanic L
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature