Bilingual Review articles

Recent articles from Bilingual Review

Illness, observation, and contradiction: intertext and intrahistory in Alejandro Morales's The Captain of All These Men of Death.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... Numerous critics have marked Alejandro Morales's controversial career by its shift from the experimental novel to historical fiction as well as by what Morales himself describes as the connection between intrahistory and intertextuality (Grandjeat 111). Additionally, Antonio C. Marquez has...

Representations of Mexican American migrant childhood in Rivera's ... y no se lo trago la tierra and Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus.(Tomas Rivera)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... There are few authors more hallowed and respected in the field of Mexican American literature than Tomas Rivera. His life and writing were cut tragically short by a heart attack in 1984 when he was forty-eight, but his work continues to be widely read. Central to his prominence is his...

Santitos: simbolismo y representacion del espacio de Tijuana.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... Welcome to Tijuana tekila, sexo y mariguana. --Manu Chao, Clandestino Maria Amparo Escandon se inicia como escritora a la temprana edad de dieciseis anos cuando aun se encontraba en su tierra natal, la Ciudad de Mexico. Al principio los temas principales en su obra eran cuestiones...

Solving Guzman's problem: "an other" narrative of La gran familia puertorriquena in Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Line of the Sun.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... The first half of Judith Ortiz Cofer's novel The Line of the Sun (1989) narrates events that take place in the small fictional town of Salud, Puerto Rico, during the 1940s and 50s. In the second part of the novel, starting with chapter six, we see how two characters from the first hall,...

Of Chicharrones and clam chowder: gender and consumption in Jorge Ulica's cronicas diabolicas.(domestic life of Mexican immigrants )(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... Si los hombres casados quieren ser menos infelices... no deben venir, con sus consortes, a los United States. Pueden cruzar la frontera solos, dejando a sus respectivas mitades allende el Bravo, lo mas "allende" que puedan, a muy respetuosa distancia. Porque aqui andan las cosas muy mal y el...