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Literature by Hispanic and Latino American women
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The list Literature by Hispanic and Latino American women includes
The Moths (short story), Her Body and Other Parties, When I was Puerto Rican, The Myth of the Latin Woman and The Poet X.
The list consists of 34 members
and 14 sublists.
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The Meaning of Mariah Carey
Memoir by Mariah Carey
Overview: The Meaning of Mariah Carey is a memoir by Mariah Carey, released on September 29, 2020. It was written with Michaela Angela Davis, and was published by Andy Cohen Books, an imprint of Henry Holt, as well ...
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True Love (book)
book by Jennifer Lopez
Overview: True Love (Spanish: Amor Verdadero) is a book written by the American entertainer Jennifer Lopez. A hardcover edition of the book was published in English and Spanish on November 4, 2014, by Celebra, a ... 0
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The Dirty Girls Social Club
2003 novel by Alisa Valdes
Overview: The Dirty Girls Social Club is a 2003 novel by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez. Valdes-Rodriguez later wrote a sequel titled Dirty Girls on Top, which was published in 2008. The book is also credited with launching ... 0
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United States of Banana
Post-911 dramatic novel
Overview: United States of Banana (2011) is a postmodern allegorical novel by the Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi. It is a cross-genre work that blends experimental theatre, prose poetry, short story, and ... 0
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¡Ándale, Prieta!
2022 non-fiction book
Overview: ¡Ándale, Prieta! A Love Letter to My Family is a 2022 memoir by Yasmín Ramírez, a Mexican–American writer and associate professor of English and creative writing at El Paso Community College. She was ... 0
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6.Overview: Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU is a 2013 weird fiction novella by American writer Carmen Maria Machado. The story is told in the form of 272 capsule synopses from the first 12 seasons ... 0
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Her Body and Other Parties
story collection by Carmen Maria Machado
Overview: Her Body and Other Parties is a 2017 short story collection by the writer Carmen Maria Machado, published by Graywolf Press. The collection won the Shirley Jackson Award, and was a finalist for the N ... 0
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When I was Puerto Rican
book by Esmeralda Santiago
Overview: When I Was Puerto Rican is a 1993 autobiography written by Puerto Rican native Esmeralda Santiago. It is the first of three installments, followed by Almost a Woman and The Turkish Lover. This first ... 0
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The Myth of the Latin Woman
book by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Overview: The Myth of the Latin Woman (also known under the title Just Met a Girl Named Maria) is a non-fiction essay written by Puerto Rican author Judith Ortiz Cofer. 0
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The Poet X
2018 young adult novel by Elizabeth Acevedo
Overview: The Poet X, published March 6, 2018 by HarperTeen, is a young adult novel by Elizabeth Acevedo. Fifteen-year-old Xiomara, also known as "X" or "Xio," works through the tension and conflict in her family ... 0
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The Line of the Sun
1989 novel by Judith Ortiz CoferOverview: The Line of the Sun, titled La Línea del Sol in the Spanish translation, is a 1989 novel written by Puerto Rican-American author Judith Ortiz Cofer. The story spans three decades, beginning in the late ... 0
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The Knife and the Butterfly
2011 novel by Ashley Hope Pérez
Overview: The Knife and the Butterfly is a young adult novel by Ashley Hope Pérez, published in 2011 by Carolrhoda Books. The novel, which explores the lives of two teenage gang members in Houston, a Hispanic boy ... 0
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Braschi's Empire of Dreams
epic poetry book by Giannina BraschiOverview: Empire of Dreams (Spanish: El imperio de los sueños, 1988) is a postmodern poetry epic by Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi, who is considered "one of the most revolutionary voices in Latin American ... 0
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The Book of Unknown Americans
2014 novel by Cristina Henríquez
Overview: The Book of Unknown Americans is a 2014 novel by Cristina Henríquez published by Knopf. The story is told from multiple first-person points of view, with the two main narrators being Alma Rivera, a roughly ... 0
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Desert Blood
2005 novel by Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Overview: Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders is a 2005 mystery thriller by author Alicia Gaspar de Alba based on the violence, kidnapping and femicides that occurred in Ciudad Juarez in 1998. 0
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Yo-Yo Boing!
book by Giannina Braschi
Overview: Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) is a postmodern novel in English, Spanish, and Spanglish by Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi. The cross-genre work is a structural hybrid of poetry, political philosophy, musical ... 0
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
book by Gloria Anzaldúa
Overview: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza is a 1987 semi-autobiographical work by Gloria E. Anzaldúa that examines the Chicana/o and Latina/o experience through the lens of issues such as gender, identity ... 0
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Their Dogs Came with Them
2007 novel by Helena Maria Viramontes
Overview: Their Dogs Came With Them is a 2007 novel by Helena Maria Viramontes. Viramontes was born in East Los Angeles, California, into a Mexican American family. She attended Garfield High School and later I ... 0
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Becoming Naomi León
novel by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Overview: Becoming Naomi León is a 2005 fiction, adventure, and young author's 246 page coming of age novel by Pam Muñoz Ryan about a quiet Latina girl, whose life with her great-grandmother and younger brother ... 0
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The Island of Eternal Love
book by Daína Chaviano
Overview: The Island of Eternal Love is a 2006 novel by Cuban author Daína Chaviano. 0
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