Ralph E Rodriguez: 2 books
Brown Gumshoes
Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Popular fiction, with its capacity for diversion, can mask important cultural observations within a framework that is often overlooked in the academic world. Works thought to be merely "escapist" can often be more seriously mined for revelations regarding the worlds they portray, especially those of...
Latinx Literature Unbound
Undoing Ethnic Expectation
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Brings attention to several contemporary writers that have received little or no critical attention, including Eduardo Halfón, Manuel Muñoz, Patricia Engel, and Amanda Calderón.