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Literature: a most outstanding collection of creative writings, novels, poetry
and resources
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Borrowing Time: A Latino Sexual Odyssey. By Carlos
T. Mock, M.D. ISBN: 0-915745-54-2 $32.95 Hardbound;
$24.95 Paper. “Whatever your orientation, no matter your ethnicity, you’ll never
be the same after a journey through this odyssey. A vivid and visceral portrayal
of a sexual and political coming-of-age in today’s America—and beyond.”
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Brotherhood of the Light: A novel
of the Penitentes and Crypto-Jews of New Mexico. By Ray Michael
Baca. 0-915745-66-6 $24.95
A novel about the un-easy and often misunderstood
relationships of Crypto-Jews and Hispanos in New Mexico and their deep
common roots in Spanish history--conquest and colonization--and religious faith
and shared values.
- BRING ME MORE STORIES:
TALES OF THE SEPHARDIM
By Sally Benforado ISBN
0915745674
$22.95 (pbk)
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THE CHICANO PUBLIC CATALOG: A COLLECTION
GUIDE FOR LIBRARIES.
ISBN: 0915745038 Indexes. David Gutiérrez and Roberto
Trujillo, compilers. $23.00 An authoritative guide by
a leading bibliographer and collection development specialist to the best and
most significant published books on Latino
collections.
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BRUNO ESTAÑOL: The Collected Fiction. Translation from the Spanish and
preface by Eduardo Jiménez.
ISBN: 978-0-915745-84-5 2006
$29.95
The narratives collected in this volume are mainly set in the
State of Tabasco, during the turbulent time period running from the Mexican
Revolution to the late 1950’s.
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Carnival King: The Last Latin Monarch.
By Brent Alan
James. ISBN:
978-0-915745-78-4.
$25.95
In
April of 1993, Brazilian voters were given a choice between continuing with a
president, adopting a prime minister and parliament, or bringing back its long
dormant monarchy. Carnival King is the story of what might have happened had
they opted for the latter.
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Chat
Room & other Latino Plays. Leo Cabranes-Grant. ISBN:
978-0-9796457-5-4
"It gives me great pleasure to introduce Floricanto's New Series: Latino GLBT
works. In this edition, we have "The Chat Room and Other Latino Plays" which
explores the complexities of Latino gay life through characters and events that
challenge our expectations in both funny and disturbing ways.
- CINCO DE MAYO: AN EPIC NOVEL.
Monreal, David. 1996 180p. (pbk) ISBN: 0-915745-48-8 180 pgs.$20.95; Price for class use
$15.95
Three-time award winner writer, Monreal brings life to the passionate, heroic,
and inspiring events that led to the Battle of Puebla on the 5th of May,
1862.
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THE CHICANO PUBLIC CATALOG: A COLLECTION
GUIDE FOR LIBRARIES.
188 pgs. ISBN: 0915745038 Indexes. David Gutiérrez and Roberto
Trujillo, compilers. $23.00 An authoritative guide by
a leading bibliographer and collection development specialist to the best and
most significant published books for Latino
collections.
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Clásicos de la Literatura Hispanoamericana Colonial en su Contexto
Sociohistórico.
Dr. Clary Loisel.
ISBN:
978-0-915745-97-5.
$24.95 A literary review of the most important works and
writers of the Hispano American Colonial period.
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The Cult of Jaguar.
By Bonnie Hayman.
ISBN:
0915745585 Hardbound
$34.95
Centuries
ago, in the darkest jungles of Mexico, a young Mayan boy named Xichantl witnessed
his father and most of his tribe follow the hallowed jaguar into the Graylands,
never to be seen again.
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THE DEATHS OF DON BERNARDO.
Mujica, Barbara. 1990 335 pgs. (pbk) ISBN: 0915745143 Ser.: La Mujer Latina .
Includes glossaries of Spanish and Indian terms. $22.95
Price for class use $18.95
Peru 1917. The War of the Pacific has forced thousands of Indians out of their
villages and into the cities. A pro-Indian movement is on the rise.
Anti-American sentiment is rampant among leftist factions, but Peru's commercial
elite sees the U.S. as a model to emulate.
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Diadema.
Carlos Aceves. ISBN:
978-0-9796457-6-1
$24.95
Carlos
Aceves has created an allegorical story rooted in the deepest essence of the
Latino soul. Diadema is a symbolic artifice very much like Doña Marina, La
Malinche, searching for her child, her very being.
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THE DRUGLORD.
Neissa, Peter A. 2004 210 pgs. (pbk) ISBN: 091574526 $23.95
It is the
true life story of Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha,
El Mexicano, the drug lord of the Bogota branch of
the Colombian Drug Cartel, this historical novel offers a factual and
knowledgeable Colombian perspective
of the drug trade.
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Far from
my Mother’s Home. By Bárbara Mujica. E.L. Doctorow-award-winning stories of
cross-cultural perspectives. ISBN: 0-915-745-28-3
$22.95; $18.95 college use
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Jalapeño Blues.
By Trinidad Sánchez, Jr. ISBN
978-0-915745-72-2
124 pgs. 2006 $16.95
Trinidad
Sánchez, Jr. has been at his lyric craft for several decades. He is a prominent
poeta Tejano, who provides us in his lyric writings
a rich Latino landscape embedded in an indifferent Anglo world covered by the
knit of the ethnic fabric and soul of the Mexican,
Chicano.
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La Gringa. By
Pedro Martínez. ISBN: 978-0-915745-94-4. 428 pgs. $25.95
Joe García, a Marine Colonel and childhood friend devoted to
the President, La Gringa is also told from multiple points of view that
push at the edges of literary tradition.
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Latina Filmmakers and Writers: The Notion of Chicanisma Through Films and
Novellas .
By Jenny Dean.
ISBN:
978-0-9796457-1-6.
$26.95
During the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, Chicanas,
particularly Chicana artists, helped Chicanos
achieve equal rights, while at the same time suffered oppression as women
within their own race.
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Latina Mistress.
By R.F. Sánchez 978-0-915745-91-3.
332 pgs. $24.95
This story is about young and pretty illegal alien women
in El Paso, Texas, who unknowingly fall or conveniently acquiesce to the sexual
demands of their male employers, who most happen to be Anglo Americans.
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Latina
Icons: Iconos
Femeninos Latinos e hispanoamericanos. Edited by María Claudia André.La Mujer
Latina Series
ISBN: 978-0-915745-85-2. Floricanto Press, 2006. $26.95
This
book brings the most prominent Latino icons, popular female figures, and offers
the most important and clear description of the process of iconization of the
most cherished Latin American women.
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Literatura Chicana: a Bibliography of Creative
Writings to 1984. By Roberto Trujillo.
The most complete and authoritative retrospective list of Chicano literary writings. ISBN:
0-915-745-04-6 $23.00
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Love & Riot:
Oscar Zeta Acosta and the great Mexican American Revolt.
With
Preamble by Diego Vigil with the assistance of Richard E. Vigil,
Nome de guerre,
Mangas Coloradas.
Edited by Andrea
Alessandra Cabello. $32.95 Hardbound
By Burton Moore.
ISBN: 0-915745-29-1 $32.95 Price for class use $28.95
Brown Buffalo, as he was known in the
barrios
of Los Angeles among
street people,
at the height of the riots in in the late 1960’s and 70’s,
was the epitome of the Movimiento.
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Maravilla, A Novel. By Laura del Fuego. The first Chicano novel of urban barrio
life. ISBN: 0-915-745-15-1
$ 22.95
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Mosaic
Virus.
By Carlos
T. Mock, M.D. 9780915745798
$24.95
It is 1983. In
Rome, Cardinal Siri, the most powerful
Cardinal in the Vatican, summons a young Jesuit priest and assigns him a
grave and urgent task.
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Nights
of Adrenaline/Noches de Adrenalina.
By Carmen Ollé. A
universal lyric exploration of women’s condition and Latinas’ conflictive social
placement by Latin America’s foremost poetess. ISBN:
0-915-745-46-1 $14.95
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Notes From Exile. By T.M. Spooner. 978-0-915745-89-0
302 pgs. $22.95
Rich in language and imagery, Notes
from Exile is a skillfully crafted novel. A blend of humor and drama thread this
tale, concluding in what can best be described as a haunting modern tragedy.
Struggles both large and small remind us of human frailties and how in the final
analysis, we go it alone. For its wit and passion, this novel should not be
missed!
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Papi
Chulo . Dr.
Carlos T. Mock. ISBN Complete:
978-0-9796457-0-9 "If self-identity is a crucial issue in this literature, then national identity
is what Carlos Mock addresses; and Papi Chulo, actually is the story of a
country as seen through the eyes and lives of three strong women of several
generations. For Carlos Mock, the theme is felt so strongly that it must be
openly expressed. "
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The Salvation of La Purísima.
By T.M. Spooner. ISBN: 0-915745-55-0.
Hard cover $32.95.
Paperback $24.95 New Novel, The
Salvation of La Purísima, explores an anthropologist’s struggle with professional
objectivity as he is drawn into a crisis in a Mexican village. The chilling
and dramatic events will significantly change him.
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Shadow of the Fathers.
By Robert Friedman.
ISBN:
978-0-915745-75-3.
2007. $14.95
Never, in Latino history, a well-seasoned and prominent journalist has
embarked in the difficult task of reconstructing the scene, background, and
times of a real and very plausible racial crime in which colors, the
symbolic trust placed in those in authority and power, were used. It long
has been a deadly tale in the island. Why those Latinos die precisely
in the place where they supposed to have been treated and cured. What role
did the good Anglo doctor play in their deaths.
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The Strongest Passion.
By Luis Zapata.
Translated from Spanish by
Clary Loisel, Ph.D.,
2006.
ISBN: 0-915745-76-3
$25.95 Using only dialogue as its narrative
technique, Luis Zapata recounts the story of his protagonist Santiago, a
middle-aged businessman hopelessly in love with Arturo, a 19-year-old teenager,
who is the son of Sarita, his best friend.
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Tina Modotti's Mexico: A Tale of Love & Revolution.
By
Bonnie Hayman. Edited by Andrea Alessandra Cabello, UC
Berkeley. ISBN: 0-915745-40-2 $32.95 Hardbound Hayman situates Tina Modotti
(1896-1942) profoundly within her social period from her 1913 emigration to
San Francisco to a full-fledged member of the intellectual wing of the
Mexican Communist Party. She is one of the most important contemporary women
of Mexico.
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Unamuno: A Lyrical Essay.
By Pedro Blas González. ISBN:
978-0-915745-75-3
$22.95
Scholarship and art in Europe,
traditionally crisscrossed each other, particularly when the brightest minds
where at it. Germany has Goethe, the Hispanic world has Unamuno. The most
extraordinary Latino prose writing, bordering in lyricism.
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Waves of Recovery: The Life of an Advocate
of Latino Civil Rights.
By Maurice Jourdane.
ISBN:
978-0-915745-95-1
$26.95
This a riveting personal account of Maurice Jourdane--currently a
Superior Court Judge and a member of the Jerry Brown's California Attorney
General's Office--leading to his legal representation and advocacy for farm
workers and César Chávez's organizing efforts.
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