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American literature -- Mexican American authors

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2778 Collections and/or Records:

“Xmas Cookies” San Antonio, 2001

 File — Box 203, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

(19 photographs)

Dates: 2001

“Xmas San Antonio”, 2001

 File — Box 203, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Subjects include Gertrude Baker (23 photographs)

Dates: 2001

“Xmas San Antonio”, 2001

 File — Box 203, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

(17 photographs)

Dates: 2001

“Y’all Come Back,” multiple drafts

 File — Box 46, Folder: 16
Subseries Description From the Series: Short Stories span 1982-2012 and are arranged alphabetically. A number of stories were originally housed in a folder title “Antojitos collection,” dating from 1982-1987. These stories were kept together in box 45, folders 1-15. The rest of the short stories follow, and are also arranged alphabetically. Many include multiple drafts, with stories such as “Machu Pichu,” “Martita te Requerdo,” and “The Snow Queen,” a poem inspired by former San Antonio mayor, Henry Cisneros, comprising several...
Dates: 1982 - 2009

Yamanaka, Lois Ann, 1995, 1997, 2014

 File — Box 144, Folder: 9
Series Description From the Series: The extensive correspondence files span 1980-2013 and are arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Every correspondent is included in the container list, and when known, organizational affiliations are listed in parenthesis. Individuals with a significant quantity of letters include: Jeffrey Abrahams; Norma Alarcón; Dorothy Allison; Julia Alvarez; Beatrix Badikian; Gertrude Baker; Ruth Behar; Ronnie Burke; Norma Cantu; Ana Castillo; Denise Chávez; Carlos Cumpián; Ted Dvoracek; Gayle...
Dates: 1995, 1997, 2014

Yampolsky, Mariana, 1998, 2007

 File — Box 144, Folder: 10
Series Description From the Series: The extensive correspondence files span 1980-2013 and are arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Every correspondent is included in the container list, and when known, organizational affiliations are listed in parenthesis. Individuals with a significant quantity of letters include: Jeffrey Abrahams; Norma Alarcón; Dorothy Allison; Julia Alvarez; Beatrix Badikian; Gertrude Baker; Ruth Behar; Ronnie Burke; Norma Cantu; Ana Castillo; Denise Chávez; Carlos Cumpián; Ted Dvoracek; Gayle...
Dates: 1998, 2007

Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne “Insider/Outsider Multiple Cultural Critiques in Chicana Art and Literature”

 File — Box 89, Folder: 18
Series Description From the Series:

These writings about Cisneros are arranged chronologically from 1981-2012 and include academic articles, interviews, and writer’s biographies. Undated writings about Cisneros are housed in box 89 and are arranged alphabetically by author. Newspaper articles and publicity writings about Cisneros can be found in Series XIX: Publicity.

Dates: 1981 - 2012

Ybañez, Terry (artist, My Wicked Wicked Ways), 1986-1999, 2002

 File — Box 144, Folder: 11
Series Description From the Series: The extensive correspondence files span 1980-2013 and are arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Every correspondent is included in the container list, and when known, organizational affiliations are listed in parenthesis. Individuals with a significant quantity of letters include: Jeffrey Abrahams; Norma Alarcón; Dorothy Allison; Julia Alvarez; Beatrix Badikian; Gertrude Baker; Ruth Behar; Ronnie Burke; Norma Cantu; Ana Castillo; Denise Chávez; Carlos Cumpián; Ted Dvoracek; Gayle...
Dates: 1986-1999, 2002

“Year of my Near Death” Austin, 1987

 File — Box 175, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Subjects include Rubén Guzman, Jasna Karaula, Julie Parrales, Pan Rubén. (44 photographs)

Dates: 1987

“Year of my near death. Austin to Chico period.” Teaching at Women’s Peace Center with students including Laura Lippman and Liliana Valenzuela. Notes for commencement speech at Latino Youth where she began writing A House on Mango Street, poetry notes for Rodrigo poems. Approximately 37 pages. Spiral bound; hearts on cover, 1987

 File — Box 16, Folder: 8
Series Description From the Series: Notebooks and Journals span 1979-2012 and often overlap with the items in series III: Diaries. They include notes, story ideas, lists, addresses, and a number of other jottings by Cisneros. Some notable entries include notes and quotes concerning what poetry is while she was working as a counselor at Loyola University in Chicago in 1981; drafts and notes for poems and for The House on Mango Street in 1982; a list of stories for Mango Street in 1983; and notes from 1987 which Cisneros titled”...
Dates: 1987

Yerba Buena High School

 File — Box 249, Folder: 7
Series Description From the Series: Reader Correspondence, 1990-2013, is arranged chronologically. Each year is separated into letters from individuals and letters from classes. The individual letters are typical fan letters and document the effect her writing has had on her readers. The class letters are often packets sent by teachers containing letters from students who have read her works in class, and sometimes thank-you letters from students whose class Cisneros visited. When known, the school name is included in the...
Dates: 1998

Yerba Buena High School

 File — Box 247, Folder: 11
Series Description From the Series: Reader Correspondence, 1990-2013, is arranged chronologically. Each year is separated into letters from individuals and letters from classes. The individual letters are typical fan letters and document the effect her writing has had on her readers. The class letters are often packets sent by teachers containing letters from students who have read her works in class, and sometimes thank-you letters from students whose class Cisneros visited. When known, the school name is included in the...
Dates: 1997

Yerba Buena High School, Leslie Wilde’s class

 File — Box 247, Folder: 8
Series Description From the Series: Reader Correspondence, 1990-2013, is arranged chronologically. Each year is separated into letters from individuals and letters from classes. The individual letters are typical fan letters and document the effect her writing has had on her readers. The class letters are often packets sent by teachers containing letters from students who have read her works in class, and sometimes thank-you letters from students whose class Cisneros visited. When known, the school name is included in the...
Dates: 1996

Y.E.S. College Prep

 File — Box 251, Folder: 19
Series Description From the Series: Reader Correspondence, 1990-2013, is arranged chronologically. Each year is separated into letters from individuals and letters from classes. The individual letters are typical fan letters and document the effect her writing has had on her readers. The class letters are often packets sent by teachers containing letters from students who have read her works in class, and sometimes thank-you letters from students whose class Cisneros visited. When known, the school name is included in the...
Dates: 2000

Yo - Z

 File — Box 145, Folder: 1
Correspondents Youngblood, Shay, 1997; Yours, John B., 1989; Yows, Kristina, 1998; Yzaguirre, Raul, 1995, 2000, 2002; Yzquierdo, Rosa Elena, 1986; Zavala, Pablo Castro, 1997; Zeoli, Sandra, 2003; Ziegler, Dick, 1997, undated; Zigal, Tom, 1992; Zilly, Paul, 1989, 1993; Zimmerman, Mark (University of Illinois at Chicago), 1984; Zordani, Carole R. (HACIA Scholarship Foundation), 2006; Zorilla, Aída (San Antonio Museum of Art), 1997; Zuckerman, Jocelyn (Gourmet), undated; Zuniga,...
Dates: 1980 - 2013

“You Are God’ Exhibition, [San Antonio], circa 1997

 File — Box 190, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

19 photographs)

Dates: circa 1997

“You Better Not Put Me in a Poem,” 10 drafts, corrected, January 2007

 File — Box 44, Folder: 45
Subseries Description From the Sub-Series:

Later Poems span 1985-2014 and did not come in any original order. They are arranged alphabetically. Most poems are single drafts, but or insight into Cisneros’ revision process, there are eight progressive drafts of the 1995 poem “Morning After Tango.”

Dates: January 2007

“You Bring Out the Mexican in Me,” 2 typed pages, no corrections, July 20, 1992

 File — Box 55, Folder: 43
Subseries Description From the Sub-Series:

The bulk of the material for Loose Woman are the poems, arranged alphabetically. Many were originally housed in a folder titled “complete book.” Additional material includes proofs from Knopf, promotional displays, and Spanish translations by Paloma Zozaya and Marilar Aleixandre.

Dates: July 20, 1992

“You Called Me Corazón,” 1 typed page, no corrections; 1 photocopy, 1990

 File — Box 55, Folder: 44
Subseries Description From the Sub-Series:

The bulk of the material for Loose Woman are the poems, arranged alphabetically. Many were originally housed in a folder titled “complete book.” Additional material includes proofs from Knopf, promotional displays, and Spanish translations by Paloma Zozaya and Marilar Aleixandre.

Dates: 1990

You Like to Give and Watch Me My Pleasure,” 1 typed page, no corrections, August 16, 1992

 File — Box 55, Folder: 45
Subseries Description From the Sub-Series:

The bulk of the material for Loose Woman are the poems, arranged alphabetically. Many were originally housed in a folder titled “complete book.” Additional material includes proofs from Knopf, promotional displays, and Spanish translations by Paloma Zozaya and Marilar Aleixandre.

Dates: August 16, 1992