Redreaming America: Toward a Bilingual American Culture (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture) : toward a bilingual American culture

What would American literature look like in language other than English, and what would Latin American literature look life if we understood the United States to be a Latin American country and took seriously the work by U.S. Latinos/as in Spanish? Debra A. Castillo explores these questions by highlighting the contributions of Latinos/as writing in Spanish and Spanish. Beginning with the anonymously published 1826 novel "Jicotencal and ending with fiction published at the turn of the twenty-first century, the book details both the characters' and authors' struggles with how to define an American self. Writers from Cuba. Puerto Rico, and Mexico are featured prominently, alongside a sampling of those writers from other Latin American heritages (Peru, Colombia, Chile). Castillo concludes by offering some thoughts on U.S. curricular practice.