Bibliographic Guide to Chicana and Latina Narrative

There has been a dramatic increase in the amount of narrative work published by Chicana and Latina authors in the past 5 to 10 years. Nonetheless there has been little attempt to catalog this material. This reference provides convenient access to all forms of narrative written by Chicana and Latina authors from the early 1940s through 2002. In doing so it helps users locate these works and surveys the growth of this vast body of literature.The volume cites more than 2750 short stories novels novel excerpts and autobiographies written by some 600 Mexican American Puerto Rican Cuban American Dominican American and Nuyorican women authors. These citations are grouped in five indexes: an author/title index title/author index anthology index novel index and autobiography index. Short annotations are provided for the anthologies novels and autobiographies. Thus the user who knows the title of a work can discover the author the other works the author has written and the anthologies in which the author''s shorter pieces have been reprinted along with information about particular works.