| Gritos: Essays Contributor(s): Gilb, Dagoberto (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802141277 ISBN-13: 9780802141279 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $11.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2004 Annotation: When he first started writing, Dagoberto Gilb was struggling to survive as a journeyman high-rise carpenter. Years later, he has won widespread acclaim as a crucial and compelling voice in contemporary American letters. Tackling everything from cockfighting to Cormac McCarthy, Gritos collects Gilb's essays and his popular commentaries for NPR's Fresh Air, offering a startling portrait of an artist-and a Mexican-American- working to find his place in both the cloistered literary world and the world at large, to say nothing of his strange and beloved borderland of Texas. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Hispanic American - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2002044688 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.66" W x 8.16" (0.69 lbs) 247 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Chicano - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, Dagoberto Gilb is one of today's most captivating and provocative fiction writers. Now Gilb offers a collection of essays that brilliantly portrays an artist working to earn respect--and find his place--as a Mexican-American in the literary world and the world at large, to say nothing of his singular and beloved borderland of Texas. "Gritos" are the exuberant cries in Mexican songs, and Gilb's essays are charged with the same urgency, sincerity, and musicality. In a controversial piece for Harper's, he travels to the land of his mother, where Cortes first met Malinche. In "Mi Mommy, " published in The New Yorker, he tackles the myths surrounding Mexican woman, and in "Me Macho, You Jane, " those surrounding men like himself. In his pieces written for NPR's "Fresh Air, " he engages the reader with scenes as vividly rendered as they are funny, intimate, and sometimes devastating. Like his fiction, Gritos is a riveting glimpse into the heart and mind of a passionate and idiosyncratic thinker. |