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Literature Reviews Table of Contents Author Biographies A print on demand title. Short discount for retail accounts only. Please inquire at sales@heydaybooks.com	Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California Edited by Rick Heide, Foreword by Juan Velasco Trade paper, 576 pages, (6 x 9) ISBN: 1-890771-59-7, $19.95 A California Legacy book Here is a fresh, vigorous body of work, ranging from Jaime de Angulo’s visions of Spaniards and Indians to the classic Chicano novels of José Antonio Villarreal and Raymond Barrio, and from the nineteenth-century childhood memories of Ygnacio Villegas to the contemporary poetry of Michele Serros. Under the Fifth Sun collects stories of love, family, work, exploration, politics, history, culture, and survival—fiction, poetry, memoirs, commentary, and drama—covering more than two centuries of Latino presence in California, from missionaries and soldiers to gold miners, farmworkers, and political refugees. Most of these well-crafted and vivid works remain outside the mainstream of popular literature—yet anyone who reads them will gain a better understanding of our collective history and present-day culture. A celebration, an outcry, a revelation, and a powerful reading experience, this anthology ranges from naturalism to magical realism, from lyric poetry to detective fiction, with works by Francisco X. Alarcón, Isabel Allende, Lorna Dee Cervantes, César Chávez, Francisco Jiménez, Graciela Limón, Juan Marichal, Pablo Neruda, Gary Soto, Luis Valdez, Alma Luz Villanueva, and many others.

	Reviews: "A plentiful harvest…Under the Fifth Sun is not only a Who’s Who but a What’s What, When, and Why. I salute Rick Heide for handing us a mirror on which to appreciate California’s gorgeous brownness." —Ilan Stavans "A thoughtfully conceived, thoroughly inclusive anthology that captures the Latino essence of California. Straddling borders, high academia, and a bilingual bohemia that is central to any understanding of postwar America, this is a collection that anyone infatuated with the West should read."—Ed Morales, author of Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

	Table of Contents: Juan Velasco, Foreword: My Road to the Fifth Sun Acknowledgments Introduction ARRIVING Jaime de Angulo, Five Thousand Years Nina Serrano, Antepasados/Ancestors Ygnacio Villegas, from Boyhood Days Vicente Pérez Rosales, from Diario de un viaje a California Ramón Gil Navarro, from Los Chilenos en California anonymous, Life, Trial, and Death of Aurelio Pompa Luis Alberto Urrea, from Across the Wire Isabel Allende, from Paula Juan Felipe Herrera, Exiles Graciela Limón, from In Search of Bernabé Rubén Martínez, from Crossing Over Beverly Silva, Wetbacks BETWEEN CULTURES Gloria Anzaldúa, Cuyamaca Jaime de Angulo, from The Lariat alurista, we’ve played cowboys Leonard Adame, My Grandmother Would Rock Quietly and Hum Luis “Louie the Foot” González, Doña Toña of Nineteenth Street Octavio Paz, from The Labyrinth of Solitude Barbara Brinson Curiel, Recipe: Chorizo con Huevo Made in the Microwave Rubén Medina, Busing Ron Arias, from The Road to Tamazunchale Richard Rodriguez, from Days of Obligation Elías Miguel Muñoz, Returning Guillermo Gómez-Peña, from The Multicultural Paradigm Lucha Corpi, Underground Mariachi POP CULTURE Garcí Rodríguez Ordóñez de Montalvo, from Las sergas de Esplandián Daniel Venegas, from The Adventures of Don Chipote or When Parrots Breast-Feed anonymous, from Radios and Chicanos Mary Helen Ponce, from Hoyt Street Arturo Islas, from La Mollie and the King of Tears Elías Miguel Muñoz, The Coupe de Ville Victor Hernández Cruz, The Low Riders Alejandro Murguía, from Lucky Alley Elías Miguel Muñoz, Little Sister Born in This Land Gary D. Keller, from Mocha in Disneyland Carlos Morton, from Rancho Hollywood: “A California Dream” Juan Velasco, The Spirit of Sitting Bull No Longer Protects Us Carlos Fuentes, from The Crystal Frontier IDENTITY Francisco Jiménez, from The Circuit José Antonio Villarreal, from Pocho Robert Vasquez, At the Rainbow Joan Baez, from And a Voice to Sing With Cherríe L. Moraga, from A Long Line of Vendidas Roberto Tinoco Durán, Tattoos Michele Serros, La Letty Francisco X. Alarcón, I Used to Be Much Much Darker Aurora Levins Morales, Puertoricanness Luis Omar Salinas, Aztec Angel Rubén Medina, Classifieds WORKING Arnold R. Rojas, from The Vaquero Alejandro Morales, from The Brick People Nellie Quinn, as told to Anthony Quinn, from The Original Sin Fernando Alegría, from My Horse Gonzalez Juan Marichal, from A Pitcher’s Story Gary Soto, A Red Palm Raymond Barrio, from The Plum Plum Pickers Victor Villaseñor, from Macho! Diana García, Cotton Rows, Cotton Blankets John Olivares Espinoza, Aching Knees in Palm Springs Dagoberto Gilb, from Where the Sun Don’t Shine Lorna Dee Cervantes, Cannery Town in August Rigoberto González, Rosario’s Graveyard Shift at JFK Memorial Hospital Michele Serros, Manos Morenas Carol Zapata-Whelan, Tierra y libertad POLITICS César Chávez, from The Organizer’s Tale Roberto Vargas, Homenaje a la tercera marcha de Delano; manifestación contra la uva gorda y blanca, Domingo 8 de Septiembre, 1968, San Francisco, Califas Oscar Zeta Acosta, from The Revolt of the Cockroach People Luis J. Rodríguez, The Twenty-Ninth Roberto Tinoco Durán, Rachel Bernice Zamora, Notes from a Chicana “COED” Margarita Luna Robles, It’s About Class, Ese Francisco X. Alarcón, Letter to America Michael Nava, from The Hidden Law Gloria Velásquez, Days Gone by in Orange County Leroy V. Quintana, 187 Alfred Arteaga, Tomorrow Today Lorna Dee Cervantes, Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War between Races VIOLENCE Pablo Neruda, from Splendor and Death of Joaquín Murieta Isabel Allende, from Daughter of Fortune Luis Valdez, from Zoot Suit José Montoya, El Louie Alfredo Véa, from Gods Go Begging Juan Felipe Herrera, from Days of Invasion Francisco Aragón, Her Hair Naomi Quiñonez, No Shelter Rubén Martínez, from East Side Stories Richard Garcia, Open Letter to My Friends Margarita Cota-Cárdenas, from Puppet Francisco X. Alarcón, Guerra Florida COMMUNITY Francisco X. Alarcón, Sonnet XIX Maria Melendez, The Seven Entrances to Aztlan (for Mixedbloods) Leo Carrillo, from The California I Love Ernesto Galarza, from Barrio Boy Danny Romero, Watts: 1932 Danny Romero, Saint Aloysius Luis J. Rodríguez, Watts Bleeds Yxta Maya Murray, from What It Takes to Get to Vegas Héctor Tobar, from The Tattooed Soldier Rowena Silver, L.A. Rain Brandy Burrows, Glitter Leonard Adame, In December’s Air Andrés Montoya, the rains have left and ernesto is dead Pat Mora, Divisadero Street, San Francisco Beverly Silva, East San José José Antonio Burciaga, Home by the Sea Francisco Aragón, To a New Friend LOVE & FAMILY Francisco X. Alarcón, Sonnet III Diana García, If I Trust Myself Bernice Zamora, Roberto’s Departure Dixie Salazar, Summer Rain Ernesto Trejo, Like the Earth Floyd Salas, from Buffalo Nickel Alma Luz Villanueva, La Llorona/Weeping Woman Gil Cuadros, Indulgences Gerald Haslam, The Horned Toad María Amparo Escandón, from Esperanza’s Box of Saints Lorna Dee Cervantes, Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway John Rechy, from The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez Helena María Viramontes, from Under the Feet of Jesus Leroy V. Quintana, Father Luis Omar Salinas, My Father Is a Simple Man Gary Soto, The Fights

	Author Biographies: Rick Heide has a degree in Latin American studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and he attended the Institute of Latin American Studies in London. He has been a member of the San Francisco Bay Area publishing community since 1968, working twenty years as a typesetter, for clients including the North American Congress on Latin America, Nicaraguan Perspectives, and numerous small presses, magazines, and journals with a multicultural focus. He is currently a freelance typesetter, editor, and co-publisher. Juan Velasco received a Ph.D. from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, and a second Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently a professor in the English department at Santa Clara University, where his research and teaching fields include Latino literature, border studies, film, autobiography, and creative writing. He has written many scholarly articles on ethnicity, race, and nationalism in Mexican American texts, and he published his first novel, Enamorado, in Spain in 2000.
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