Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage (Oxford University Press).)
Herencia (meaning “inheritance” or “heritage”) is the first anthology to bring together literature spanning the entire history of Hispanic writing in the United States, from the age of exploration to the present. The product of a ten-year project involving hundreds of scholars nationwide, Herencia is the most comprehensive literary collection available, covering over three centuries and including writers from all the major Hispanic ethnic communities as well as a broad sample of writing from div
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Review by Parker Cross for Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage (Oxford University Press).)
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A vast compilation of the struggles, strivings, and dreams of a people. The selections show a sharp eye for scholarship and passion is at work, one with a keen ear for the music of the language. Kudos to Dworkin y Mendez and the other editors for their labor of love and language.
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:34 am
Review by David J. Gannon for Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage (Oxford University Press).)
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Herencia : The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States by Nicolas Kanellos (Editor), is a book that’s been creating a lot of buzz here in San Antonio (where I live), a town that is one of the centers of “Hispanic” literature. The buzz has been overwhelmingly negative, the primary thrust of the discussions being that this book is a “political” book and a “sellout”.The book does have some serious problems. First of all, this is not an anthology of “Hispanic” authors per se–calling it an anthology of “Latino” authors would have been more accurate. You’d think the guru’s at an institution as prestigious and knowledgeable as the Oxford University Press would understand that entities other than the Spanish colonized the southern Americas. If this was intended to be a collection of “Hispanic” literature, several included authors should have been excluded.As it is, excluding authors didn’t seem to be an issue. A list of major “Hispanic” authors whose work does not appear-or even get passing mention-here would fill a much larger collection than this. Such a list would include major literary award recipients such as Kathleen Acala, Ana Castillo and Sandra Cisneros, as well as other, extremely well known and thought of artists as Julia Alvarez, Jose Antonio Burciaga, Alam Luz Villanueva, Denise Chavez, Gary Soto, Angela de Hoyos, John Phillip Santos, Juan Philipe Herrera, Arturo Islas and Cecile Pineda, to literally just name a few.The word around here is that this is a “political” book in the politics os publishing sense. Mr. Kanellos is apparently know quite well in the Latino writing community as a man who helps those he like and attacks those he does not-apparently quite a list based on the omissions from this text. That sounds like pettiness at first blush-but when one looks at the way this book is constructed, one has to wonder.Even with all that, the book is an impressive collection of works.that cover a wide range of Latio heritage (the translation of the title) and writing styles.In the end, this stands not as “the” anthology of the (rather arrogant) title, but “an” anthology of “Latino” writers that is seriously flawed, but nevertheless stands as an impressive collection all the same.
June 22nd, 2010 at 7:12 am