Bilingual Review articles from May 2004

Bilingual Review archives from May 2004

Spanish/English Bilingual Children in the Southeastern USA: Convergence and Codeswitching
May 1, 2004... ABSTRACT The fastest growing Hispanic population centers in the United States are currently in the Southeast. In one Georgia community, immigrant children from Mexico, Central America, and South America use Spanish and English together in...

The Chicana Subject in Ana Castillo's Fiction and the Discursive Zone of Chicana/o Theory
May 1, 2004... In the world of Chicana fiction, Ana Castillo has achieved the kind of status Maxine Hong Kingston has attained within Asian American discourse. (1) Castillo's work is popular not only with the general reading public but in many academic circles...

"To Garza's Barber Shop Goes All That Is Good and Bad": Hybrid Identity and Masculine Space in Mario Suarez's El Hoyo Story Cycle
May 1, 2004... In October of 2004, the University of Arizona Press published a short volume of Mario Suarez's short stories simply titled Chicano Sketches. Until recently, then, readers only had access to the stories through their original publications in the...

Borders of Loss: The Representation of a Desert City in Two Chicano Testimonial Texts
May 1, 2004... Diego Vazquez Jr.'s novel Growing Through the Ugly (1997) and Gloria Lopez-Stafford's memoir of childhood A Place in El Paso: A Mexican American Childhood (1996) offer two divergent views of the west Texas city and its surrounding desert. In the...

The George Lopez Show: The Same Old Hispano?
May 1, 2004... ABSTRACT The George Lopez Show is the first successful television show with a Latino in a leading role that features Hispanic material since Freddie Prinze's thirty-year-old sitcom, Chico and the Man. This study seeks to assess how Latinos...

El Norte, Deracination and Circularity: An Epic Gone Awry
May 1, 2004... As the geometer who bends all his will to measure the circle, and howsoe'er he try Fails, for the principle escapes him still, Such at this mystery new disclosed was I --Dante, Par. xxxiii, 133-36 Early journalistic reviews (e.g., Gold,...

El regalo de cumpleanos.(Short story)
May 1, 2004... El ano que papa cumplio los setenta nos juntamos los cinco hermanos y le ofrecimos regalarle entre todos lo que el quisiera. Sorprendentemente eligio "uno de esos furgones en que uno puede dormir donde le da la gana". Al principio lo echamos...

The Angel.(Short story)
May 1, 2004... I'm not dead. Not yet, at least. I don't see any dead people or tunnels of light, but my life is surely flickering away. Don't feel sorry for me, though. My long years have been blessed with many children, grandchildren, and all the joy that...

El Griton.(Poem)
May 1, 2004... EL GRITON He's here again in a dream, our dead poet of Aztlan, part pit bull, part santo, a salt-and-pepper braid crawling down his back, the rings on his stubby fingers (Taos silver and turquoise) a...

For an Old Teacher.(Poem)
May 1, 2004... FOR AN OLD TEACHER Homenajito a Francisco Ruiz A gnawed stick. That's what he looked like when I saw him last. Cancer had thinned him to a sad old body for not so old a man. But the face ...

Dancing with the Minister of the Interior.(Poem)
May 1, 2004... DANCING WITH THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR Paraguay 1973 The look of the man was possibly Like the captain of the secret police; Mafioso, Grandfatherly, With a self-satisfied beer belly. He arrived...

Snow White.(Poem)
May 1, 2004... SNOW WHITE The witch looked in the mirror. Not enough, Not enough. Beautiful but not enough. Not the fairest in the land. Snow-white skin, Rose-red cheeks, Ebony-black hair. And what cannot be...

Zero Tolerance Policies and the Marginalization of Students of Color and Other Vulnerable Groups
May 1, 2004... Reyes, Augustina H. Discipline, Achievement, & Race: Is Zero Tolerance the Answer? Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006. 152 pp. $22.95, softcover. The state of Texas is a leader in many respects. In the area of education,...

Materials Received
May 1, 2004... Creative Literature and Biography Frederick Luis Aldama, Dancing with Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 2005. 188 pp., paperback, $19.95. Biography. Mario Benedetti, Only in...