Marc Zimmerman is a specialist in Latin American and Latino cultural studies and literature best known for his work on general theoretical issues in relation to Latin and Central American, Caribbean and Latino themes, as well as for his work as director of the publication project, Global CASA/LACASA (Latin American and Latino/a Cultural Studies and Activities Arena). Recently he has emerged as a fiction writer, with several stories and books published. Zimmerman has written and edited a wide range of books with special series on Central American revolutionary writing and history, on Globalization and Cultural Studies in Latin America and, most recently, series on Central American as well as U.S. and Midwestern Latino Cultural Studies. Zimmerman is Professor Emeritus in Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and in Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston, where he served as chair between 2002 and 2008. In addition, he worked as a counselor and trouble shooter with Latinos in Minnesota, a Cuban refugee camp in Wisconsin, and a student center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also worked in the Ministerio de Cultura in Sandinista Nicaragua, and was the only U.S. representative on Cuba's Casa de las Americas jury in 1994. Beginning his career as a writer of plays and fiction, he has recently completed Cylcle I of his series of “memoir/fiction" books, “Illusions of memory,” dealing with his Jewish-American, Italian, Latin American, Latino, Caribbean and other experiences; he has also written Martin and Marvin, the first book publishing of Cycle II. For details about his books and editions since 2010, visit his author’s webpage, www.marczimmerman.net
Bibliographic note:
In addition to the many books featured on this Author Page, Zimmerman has published a wide range of articles and stories appearing in journals and collective texts. Here is a fairly comprehensive list as of 2020:
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (including previously unpublished materials in recent volumes)
“El muralismo mexicano de Chicago y el despertar de los años 70,” in Valenzuela, José Manuel (Coord) El Gran México. Las culturas mexicanas más allá de las fronteras. Editorial Gedisa, 1ª edición, 2020: 548-568.
“Foreword: This Book and its Value in the Evolution of Chicago Latino Studies.” In Antonio Delgado. Taking Off in the City: Mexicans from Hull House and Pilsen Areas in Chicago’s Near West Side, 1910-1960. Ed. by the Author with Marc Zimmerman. LACASA Chicago. 2020. : 11-29.
“Note by Marc Zimmerman,” José Luis Rocha Gómez, Provocation and Protest: The Student Movement in Nicaragua’s Uprising. LACASA Chicago, 2020: 207-210.
“Advanced Praise: Roberto Márquez, The Poet’s Praise and Other Essays.” New York, etc. Peter Lang 2019:: Prepage.
“Preface/Prefacio” and “Introduction/Introducción,” El gran circo chico de nuestro mundito: Escritos y dibujos/ The Great Little Circus of our Small World: Writings and Drawings (see above), pp. 9-46.
“Preface” and “Introduction,” La cosecha amarga/ The Bitter Harvest. LACASA 2015. See II.a.3. above.
Preface; “Editor’s Introduction: Chicago Mexicans, their art work and the Place of José Gamaliel González”; “Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago: José González and his Book”--plus all Chapter introductions, in José Gamaliel González. Documenting the Work of a Chicago Chicano Activist/Artist.. M. Z. ed. LACASA website http://book.globalacasa.com/and CD, 2013.
“Presentación” of Oscar Estrada, Honduras: Crónicas de un pueblo golpeado.. LACASA 2013: 1-5.
Prefacio y intro. MZ y Luis Ochoa Bilbao Giros culturales en la marea rosa de América Latina Puebla, Mexico. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) and LACASA 2012: pp. 9-13; 14-34.
Preface and intro. José Gamaliel González, Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago. U. of Illinois Press, 2010: ix-xxvii.
Prefacio (xi-xii), *Intro. (xiii-xxxv) and “Estudios culturales centroamericanos: Economia politica, indios y ladinos desde la colonia hasta el periodo de la globalizacion” In Gabriela Baeza Ventura y MZ, coords. Estudios culturales centroamericanos en el nuevo milenio. San José. C.R. Universidad de Costa Rica) 2009: 51-93.
*Prefacio y Intro. In Bedoya, Belpoliti y MZ, ed. Orbis/Urbis Latino: Los “Hispanos” en las ciudades de los estados unidos. Houston. LACASA. 2008: 9-50.
Preface, Intro., “Goldmann’s Literary Theory and Method,” and “Goldmann and Capitalist Development,” in Lucien
Goldmann. Santiago, Chile: LACASA/Bravo y Allende, 2007.
Prefacio, Intro., “Teoría marxista y crítica cultural latinoamericana,” Resistencia y ajuste en los estudios culturales de América Latina,” and “Y los proximos quinientos” in El momento fugaz. Santiago, Chile: LACASA/Bravo y Allende, 2007
Sonia Báez Hernández, Anadeli Bencomo y MZ, “Introducción.” In Báez Hernández, Bencomo y Zimmerman, ed. Ir y venir: Procesos transnacionales entre América Latina y el norte. Santiago, Chile: LACASA/Bravo y Allende, 2007.
“El testimonio en la literatura centroamericana contémporanea”. In José Domingo Carrillo and Lucrecia Méndez de
Penedo, ed., Voces del silencio: Literatura y testimonio en Centroamérica. Aguascalientes, Mexico. Universidad
Autónoma de Aguascalientes. 2006
“Prefacio,” “Introducción”; “La vida intellectual en Centroamérica,”; y “Subalternidad en el nuevo [des]orden munidal:
Literaturas indígenas centroamericanas y movimientos sociales,” in Literatura y testimonio en Centro-América,” in Literatura y testimonio en Centro-América,” Guatemala: 2006.
“Hernán Vidal y las contradicciones de la producción crítica”. Mabel Moraña y Jorge Campos, eds. Ideologías y literatura:
Homenaje a Hernán Vidal. Pittsburgh: Biblioteca de América. 2006: 363-388.
“Prefacio,” “Introducción,” in MZ, América Latina en el nuevo [des]orden. LACASA 2006.
“Preface,” “Introduction”: in MZ, Mixing the Personal and Professional.
“The Tourists”; “The Little Boy Who Flew Away”; “One Road to California”; and “The Univited”—Stories in MZ, Stores
of Winter. 2006.
“Preface,” 9-13; “Introduction,”15-49; Chapter I, Latin American Literary History and Popular Culture,” 51-101; Chapter II, “Culture and Literature in Central America,” 103-169; “Coda,” 291-293. In MZ, South to North 2005.
“Preface,” 9-12; “Introduction,” 13-39; “Surrealist Literary Praxis and Politics,” 79-92; “The Politicization of Latin American
Poetry,” 127-139. In MZ, Politics and Modernity, 2005.
“Preface,” 9-11; “Introduction” 13-25; and “Reception Theory and Literary History” 107-129. In MZ, Pre-Post Positions, 2005.
“Prefacio” 9-14; and “Cruces transnacionales y el desarrollo de los estudios latinomamericanos,” 67-87. In Castillón, Santibáñez y MZ. Coords. Estudios culturales y globales. 2005.
Prefacio and Introducción General: “Estudios culturales centroamericanos: El estado del campo.” In Marc Zimmerman y Gabriela Baeza Ventura, eds. Estudios culturales centroamericanos en el nuevo milenio. Special edition of Istmo: Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos. Núm. 8. Invierno 2004.
“Prefacio” 9-12; and “Introducción: Urbi et orbi,” 13-33. In Navia and Zimmerman, ed. Ciudades latinoamericanas en el nuevo
[des]orden mundial 2004 (see above).
“Fronteras latinoamericans y las ciudades globalizadas en el nuevo desorden mundial.” Nuevas perspectives desde/sobre
América Latino: El desafío de los estudios culturales. Ed. Mabel Moraña. Santiago, Chile. Instituto de Literatura Iberoamericana. Editorial Cuarto Propio. 2000: 293-306. A more ample versión appears as “Ciudad y cultura urbana: latinoamericans y las ciudades globalizadas en el nuevo desorden mundial” in La ciudad a cielo abierto. Universitas Humanística (facultad de ciencias sociales, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogata, Colombia) num. 56, ano xxx (Julio-Diciembre de 2003): 28-51; bib. 142-145; another, even larger version in Navia and Zimmerman 2004: 85-118.
“Objetos y formas culturales en los procesos transnacionales latinoamericanos.” Intercambio de bienes culturales eĬ
imaginarios sociales. Santiago, Chile. Unidad de Estudios, División de Cultura. Ministerio de Educación. 2002: 52-59.
“The Poetic Voice of Carlos Cortez.” In Victor Sorell, ed. Carlos Cortez Koyokuikatl: Soapbox Artist & Poet: A Catalog.
Chicago Mexican Fine Arts Museum. 2002: 86-99. See Enclyclopedia entries for other versions.
“El nuevo (des)orden mundial, los latinos de Estados Unidos y las relaciones euro-latinoamericanas”. Cooperación Cultural
Euroamericana. Mardrid. Organzación de Estados Iberoamericanos y Interarts (Barcelona). 2001: 22-41. Part 1 trans.:
“Latin America and the World at the pre-9/11 Juncture,’ in Literal: Latin American Voices, vol 8. 2007: 26-29.
"Rigoberta Menchú from Left Militancy to Postmodern Politics." In Ileana Rodríguez, ed. . The Subaltern Studies Reader
Duke U. Press 2001. 111-129. Variant of previously published Spanish lang. Article (see below)
“Postmodernidad y globalizacion: Transformaciones de los paradigmas teóricos en América Latina,” pp. 19-56. Also,
Introduction to final essays. “Dialogo: Nación y postmodernidad” 315-316; in Díaz y Zimmerman, ed. Globalización,
nación, postmodernidad 2001.
“Calibán y la literatura de nuestra América muchos años después.” Roberto Fernández Retamar y los estudios latinoamericanos, ed. Elzbieta Sklodowska and Ben Heller. Serie Crítica Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Pittsburgh, 2000: 227-252.
“El papel de la poesía en Centroamérica,” in La literatura centroamericana como arma cultural,” ed. Jorge Román Lagunas and Rick Mc Calister. Guatemala. CILCA. Prensa Oscar de León Palacios. 1999: 273-294. Variant of article of 1993 (see below).
"On Memory and Collage: Translating and Editing as Decolonizing Acts in The Central American Quartet and This Book." 20 pp. Afterward to Voices from the Silence. Ohio U. Press, 1998: 463-478.
“U.S. Latino Literature: History and Development.” In Ann Charters, The Story and its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Boston. Bedford/St Martin’s. 1998: 610-612.
“Preface” and "Introduction: Postmodernity, Transnationalization and Latin American Specificities" (written with Michael Piazza with the collaboration of Robert Scott Curry). In Piazza and Zimmerman, ed. New World [Dis]Orders. 1998: ix-x; 1-34.
"Latin America, Latinos and Postmodernity: Frames of Reference and Points of Entry." In Piazza and Zimmerman, ed. New World [Dis]Orders. 1998: 38-67.
"Barajando las cartas de nuevo en el nuevo mundo: una meditación sobre los apuntes andinistas de Mignolo," en Memorias de JALLA Tucumán 1995., Vol 2. ed. Ricardo J. Kaliman. Tucumán, Argentina. Universidad de los Andes, 1997: 184-202.
"El otro de Rigoberta: Los testimonios de Ignacio Bizzaro Ujpán y la resistencia indígena en Guatemala." in Hugo Achugar y John Beverley, ed. La voz del otro: Testimonio, subalternidad y verdad narrativa. Revista de crítica literaria. Año XVIII. 36, (2do. semestre 1992): 229-243. Reprinted ed by the editors in a book by same name: Lima, Peru/ Pittsburgh, PA Universidad de San Marcos/ U. of Pittsburgh: Latinoamericana Editores, 1992; 229-243.
"Guatemalan Testimonio and Social Change: Payeras, Rigoberta and Beyond." Latin American Perspectives 71, vol. 18, 4 (Fall 1991): 22-47. Republished in M. Georg Gugelburger, ed., The Real Thing: Testimonial Discourse and Latin America. Durham, NC: Duke U. Press, 1997: 69-100.
"Sobre Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions: Parámetros teóricos." in Jorge Román Lagunas, ed. La literatura centroamericana: Visiones y revisiones. Lewiston, New York. Edwin Mellen Press, 1994: 59-76.
"Postmodernity and Popular Culture in Latin America." in George De Mello and Nora González, eds. Columbus Quincentenary: Encounter and Aftermath 1492-1992. Papers from the Columbus Quincentenary Conference. Iowa International Papers. Iowa U. Center for International and Comparative Studies, 1994: 59-85.
“Tropicalizing Hegemony: Transculturations, Fatal Attractions, Neo-Colonial Capitulations and Postmodern Transactions." in Postmodernism and New Cultural Tendencies: 500th Anniversary of the Encounter of Two Worlds. Intro. Arturo Arias. San Francisco State U., Humanities Department, 1993: 69-89.
"Poetry, Prose and the Pain of History in the Work of Claribel Alegría." "Afterward" to Sandra Baschetto and Marcia McGowan, eds. Claribel Alegría and Central American Literature: Critical Essays. Athens: Ohio U. Press, 1994: 213-227.
"Transplanting Roots and Taking Off: Latino Writers in Illinois." John Hallwas, ed. Writers in Illinois. Urbana, IL: Stormline Press, 1989: 77 116.
"Los Latinos en los Estados Unidos y en Chicago: Dimensiones culturales." Rodolfo J. Cortina y Alberto Moncada, eds. Hispanos en los Estados Unidos. Madrid: Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, 1988: 173 191.
"The Unity of Caribbean Literature." Ileana Rodríguez and Marc Zimmerman, eds. Processes of Unity in Caribbean Ideologies and Literatures. Minneapolis: Institute for the Study of Ideologies and Literature, 1983: 28 56.
"Marxisme et théorie littéraire aux Etats-Unis. Autocritique des 'Premieres meditations esthetiques.'" Claude Duchet et Merigot Van Telaar, eds. Sociocritique. Conference vol. NYU/Sorbonne, Summer 1977. Paris: Nathan Editions, 1979: 51-60.
Marc Zimmerman, John Womack, John Coatsworth, Renato Barahona, "The Impact of Mexican Immigration." ed. Marc Zimmerman, in The United States in Crisis, ed. Lajos Biro and Marc Cohen. Minneapolis: MEP, 1979: 71 98.
"The Rise of the New Left." Society and New Left Ideology, ed. Ileana Rodríguez and William Rowe. Mpls: MEP, 1977: 27 42.
MAJOR JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED (Refereed)
“¿Adiós a la economía política? Problemas de parámetros, métodos y direcciones en la configuración de los estudios culturales centroamericanos,” Cuadernos de Literatura (Colombia. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana). Vol. 19, No. 38 (2015): 33-43
http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/…/c…/issue/view/883/showToc.
“Orbis/Urbis Latino: ‘Hispanics’ in U.S. Cities.” (Co-written with Cardenio Bedoya and Flavia Belpoliti—a condensed, modified English language version of intro. [centered on MZ’s contribution] to book they co-edited with MZ, Orbis/Urbis Latino: Los “Hispanos” en las ciudades de los estados unidos [2008]. In Camino Real: Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas (Journal published by the Instituto Franklin de Estudios Norteamericanos, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid) 2012, 4, 7: 29-40.
https://www.academia.edu/30751980/Orbis_urbis_Latino_Hispanics_in_U_S_cities?email_work_card=view-paper
“Poetas puertorriqueños en Chicago.” Puerto Rico Caribe: Zonas poéticas del trauma. Ed. Juan Duchesne Winter. Revista Iberoamericana (U. de Pittsburgh), vol. V, Núm. 229. Oct.-Dic., 2009, 1003-1036. Updated/revised Spanish-language version of “Defending their Own in the Cold: Puerto Rican Poets in Chicago." Latino Studies Journal I, 3. Depaul U. (Sept., 1990): 39 58.
“Globalización, privatización, americanización y des-nacionalización: El declive de las universidades latinoamericanas en el nuevo [des]orden mundial” Special issue ed. Abril Trigo and Jeffrey Cedeño. Nueva Revista Estudios 13-14: 26-27. 2005-6 (Caracas, 2007): 235-256
“Latinos and Migrational Identities in the New Transnational [Dis]Order.” Nuevo Texto Crítico. 29-32. Año XXV-XXVI. 2002-2003 (published 2005): 199-214.
“Transnational Crossings and the Development of Latin American Cultural Studies.” In Adriana J. Bergero and Jorge Ruffinelli, ed. Estudios literarios/Estudios culturales. Nuevo Texto Crítico. 25-28. Año XXIII-XXIV. 2000-2001 (published 2005): 267-296. Also appears as “Cultural Studies and Transnational Process: The French Connection.” In Catalina Castillón, Cristián Santibáñez y MZ. coords. Estudios culturales y cuestiones globales: La coyuntura transnacional. LACASA 2004. Virtual Publication. http://www.class.uh.edu/mcl/
“Estudios y procesos culturales latinoamericanos después del 11 de septiembre: un collage de anecdotas y meditaciones parciales.”
Los estudios culturales latinoamericanos hacia el siglo XXI. Coordinado por Alicia Rios, Ana del Sarto y Abril Trigo. Revista Iberoamericana. Vol. LXIX. Num. 203. Abril-junio 2003: 465-472. Variant version published in Cooperación Cultural Euroamericana II Campus Euroamericano de Cooperación Cultural. Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación,
la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI). 2003.
“Erasure, Imposition and Crossover of Puerto Ricans and Chicanos in U.S. Film and Music Culture,” Latino Studies, I, 1. March 2003: 115-123.
“Rigoberta Menchú , David Stoll, Subaltern Narrative and Testimonial Truth: A Personal Testimony.” Roy C. Boland and Ricardo Roque Baldovinos, eds. From War to Peace/ De la guerra a la paz: Perspectives on Modern Central American Literature/ Perspectivas sobre la literatura centroamericana moderna. Antípodas: Monographic Journal of Hispanic and Galician Studies (La Trobe U., Bindoora, Victoria, Australia. XIII/XIV 2001/2002. A special number in collaboration with Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas” El Salvador. 119-142. Another version, in Spanish, “Rigoberta Menchú, David Stoll, Narrativa Subalterna, y verdad testimonial” appears in Marc Zimmerman y Gabriela Baeza Ventura, eds. Estudios culturales centroamericanos en el Nuevo milenio. Special edition of Istmo: Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos. Núm. 8. Invierno 2004.
“El Salvador at War después de la guerra”. Istmo: Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos No.3 enero - junio 2002. On line internet journal.
“Cardoza y Aragón: La búsqueda formal para expresar multiplicidad.” Cultura de Guatemala. Segunda Epoca. Año XXII. Vol. III. Septiembre-diciembre 2001. Edición Homenaje Centenario. Luis Cardoza y Aragón, ed. Lucrecia Méndez y Penedo: 141-163.
“El testimonio, Menchú, usted y yo”. Narrativa Hispanoamericana: dilemas y expresión. Cultura de Guatemala. Segunda Epoca. Año XXII. Vol. II. Mayo-agosto 2001: 113-125. Variant of MMLA article: “Testimonio, Menchú, Me and You.” MMLA. The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Associaton. Fall 2000, vol. 33, 3 and Winter 2001. Vol. 34, 4-10. "Rigoberta Menchú después del Nóbel: Desde la narrativa militante a la lucha postmoderna”. En A pequeños relatos y globalización. Debates sobre identidades en el mundo hispánico. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Vol. XXIII, No. 3. Primavera 1999: 499-519.
“Woody Allen visita Guatemala O una reivindicación frustrada. Consideraciones sobre la novela de Francisco Goldman.” In Mesoamérica, 34 (diciembre de 1997): 651-666.
"La unidad de la poesía en Centroamérica." Centroamericana, 4. Universita degli Studi di Milano. Bulzoni Editore, 1993: 67-85.
"Orientaciones de la cultura popular latinoamericana: Calibán en la edad de Laclau, Mouffe y Gorbachev." in Calibán en Sassari: Por una redefinición de la imágen de América Latina en vísperas de 1992. Homenaje a Roberto Fernández Retamar, Hernán Loyola, coordinador. Nuevo Texto Crítico Spanish Department, Stanford U. 9 y 10 (Enero-Dic., 1992): 271-297.
"Chicago and the Poets of Aztlán: The Most Forgotten of the Forgotten." Crítica: A Journal of Critical Essays, II, 2. U. of California, San Diego (Fall, 1990): 230 248.
"La teorización de las literaturas caribeñas: Perspectivas latinoamericanistas." La Torre: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico III, 11 (Julio septiembre 1989): 531 560.
"Nicaragua: The Revolution & Political Poetry," in The Minnesota Review, NS 22 (Spring, 1984): 63 83; in Literature & Contemporary Revolutionary Culture, Year I: 1984 85 (Published Feb., 1986): 274 94.
"Poetry & Politics In Nicaragua: The Uprising of 1978". Minnesota Review. 1984. Number 22: 63–83. Written with Ellen Banberger.
"Latin American Literary Criticism and Immigration." Ideologies and Literature VI, 2nd Cycle, 16 (May June 1983): 172 196. Republished in David William Foster and Daniel Altamiranda, eds. Theoretical Debates in Spanish American Literature: A Collection of Essays. Volume 1 (1997): 384-408.
"Lucien Goldmann: Biography, Ideology and Politics in the Genesis of Genetic Structuralism." International Journal of Critical Sociology 4. Jaipur, India (Fall 1980): 27 67.
"Pablo Antonio Cuadra y Leonel Rugama: Dos poetas, dos poéticas, dos políticas." Taller 16. León.: U. Autónoma de Nicaragua (1980): 27 39.
"Lucien Goldmann: From Dialectical Theory to Genetic Structuralism." Berkeley Journal of Sociology XXIII (1978 79): 151 82.
"Claudio Guillén and the Theory of Literary Systems." Punto de Contacto/ Point of Contact 5 (May 1978): 67 87.
"Marxism, Structuralism and Literature: Orientations and Schemata." Ideologies and Literature II, 6 (March-April 1978): 27 53.
"Exchange and Production: Structuralist Approaches to Literature" Praxis 4 (1978): 151 68.
"Lucien Goldmann and the Science of Mental Structures." Gradiva, 4 (1978): 273 94.
"Brecht and the Dynamics of Production." Praxis, 3 (Summer 1977): 115 37.
"Sade et Lautréamont sans Blanchot: Starting Points for Surrealist Practice and Praxis in the Dialectics of Cruelty and Humour Noir." Boundary 2 V, 2 (Winter 1977): 507 28.
"Structural Historicism and Literature." Clio 7:1. (Fall 1977): 53 73.
Marc Zimmerman and Ileana Rodríguez, "First Aesthetic Meditations on Capital." Sub/Stance 15 (Fall 1976): 160 86.
"Polarities and Contradictions: Theoretical Bases of the Marxist/Structuralist Encounter." New German Critique 7 (Winter, 1976): 69 90.
ARTICLES (Non-refereed)
(for a quick look at some of the most recent articles, see http://www.elbeisman.com/busqueda.php?q=zimmerman)
A. Articles on Chicago Chicano Writing (a book in progress).
“Chicago Chicano Writing: Its Social Base, and Differential Characteristics.” El Beisman 2014-07-23 11:56:18. http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=299.
“Chicago and The Forgotten Poets of Aztlán (Part I): Introduction, in El Beisman 2015-01-01 09:29:00. http://elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=516#_ftn1.
“Chicago and The Forgotten Poets of Aztlán (Part II): The Men” in El Beisman 2015-02-01 12:21:25: http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=550.
“Chicago’s Forgotten Poets of Aztlán (Part III): The Women (and Final Remarks),” in El Beisman 2015-03-01 02:00:08.
http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=595.
“The Early Poetry of Ana Castillo,” in El Beisman. 2014-03-01 03:33:26.
http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=92.
“Ana Castillo and Chicago: From her Early Poems to The Mixquiahuala Letters,” El Beisman 2015-05-02 04:12:29. http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=687.
"Electra in Ana Castillo’s ‘My Father was a Toltec’" 2017-01-02 (Part I) http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1291; 2017-02-12 http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1339.
“Sandra Cisneros: Retro-Space in Double Time—A Testimonio.” El Beisman Part II), 2014-06-09.
http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=235
“The Roots and Takeoff of Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street.” El Beisman, 2014-06-01.
http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=229.
“Sandra Cisneros as Young Poet: From Bad Boys through Mango Street and on to her wicked ways,” El Beisman 2015-04-01 12:38:07. http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=636.
“Luis Rodriguez: The Chicago Urban Dimension in an L.A. Chicano’s Poetry” written with Raul Contreras, in El Beisman 2014-12-02 05:27:43. http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=490.
“Remembering Carlos Cortez as Poet,” El BeiSMan. 2015-08-01. http://elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=809.
“Carlos Cumpián: An Aztlán Poet in Mexican Chicago.” Part I. El BeiSMan 2015-09-18 05:40:33; http://elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=852; Part II. http://elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=872.
“Hugo Martínez Serros: Patriarchal Identity Structuration in a World of Steel. Part I. Introduction, Some Generalities, “The Last Laugh” and “Distillation” El BeiSMan 2015-12-01. http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=920.
“Martínez-Serros: Planting and Growing in Southside Chicago.” El BeiSMan. 2016-01-02 09:19:36. http://elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=946.
“Martínez-Serros: Schooling and Racism in Mexican South Chicago,” written with Carolina López-Lozano and Idoia Martínez del Moso. El BeiSMan 2016-02-01 10:36:49. http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=970.
“Sex and War in the Steel Mill Barrio School Stories of Hugo Martínez-Serros” written with Lillian Gorman, Martin Ponti and Octavian Stinga. “Part I. “Sexuality and ‘Tijuana Bibles’ in ‘Octavo,’“ El BeiSMan. 2016-07-19 01:39:53 www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1149. Part II. “Racism and Assimilation in ‘Ricardo’s War.’” El BeiSMan. 2016-08-25 05:30:20. http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1177
“The Catholic Church in Two Stories by Martínez-Serros,” written with Raúl Gutiérrez and Paloma Rodríguez Esteban. Part I. http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1358. Part II www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1381.
“Victor and David”: A Truncated Bildungsroman or Assimilation Aborted in Martínez-Serros,” written with Melissa Huerta. El BeiSMan. http://elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1455.
"Four Directions, Two Anthology Picks and a Potential Detective Series in Antonio Zavala’s Pale Yellow Moon." 2017-05-12. El BeiSMan. www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1429.
“Jorge Prieto’s Harvest of Hope.” https://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1491.
“Raúl Niño and His Poetic Explorations” El BeiSMan. Part I. 2017-12-14 0; http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1543;Part II. 2018-01-08
https://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1561
B. Other Chicago Latino Themes
1. Culture
“Adiós a lo mejor: The Closing of Tres Américas Books.” El BeiSMan. 2016-03-07 08:59:19
http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1013.
2. Literature
“Aaron Kerlow and His Circus World”. El BeiSMan 2015-11-09 09:15:10.
http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=903
“David Hernández: the Nuyorican Poet Chi-Town Style.” El Beisman 2014-03-18 08:56:30.
http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=117.
“Salima Rivera: Mysteries and Unanswered Questions in It’s Not about Dreams.” El Beisman 2014-09-02 09:23:58. http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=355.
“Salima Rivera and the Construction of Puertorriqueña/Latina Selfhood: Erasing the Erasure.” El Beisman 2014-09-02 08:43:19. http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=354 .
“La literatura en español en Chicago.” Coloquio de la lengua: El español en los Estados Unidos. Contratiempo, Núm. 25. 5/05: 10.
3. Art
“Remembering Gamaliel Ramirez.” 2018. El BeiSMan. http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1636.
“Barberena: Art as Resistance to the Emerging Farce” 2016-12-07 10:44:34 . www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1282.
“Intersections Exhibition: An Event to Remember.” 2016-12-02 www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1274.
"A New LACASA Website Will Bring New Insights on Chicago Latino Art." 2016-10-26 05:29:44
www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=magazine&view=2016-10.
“Latino Art in Chicago 1920-1970” El BeiSMan. 2016, http://elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=1035.
“Muralismo mexicano de Chicago y el despertar de la década de 1970.” El Beisman. 2014-10-31 http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=427.
“José Gamiel González, Aztlán en Chicago” Contratiempo. Núm. 59.: Oct. 2008: 4.
René Arceo. ed. MZ Carlos Cortez Koyokuikatl: The Man and Artist Part 1.
http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=848; Part II 2015-10-03 09:49:25. http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=878
“José Gamaliel González at the National Museum of Mexican Art,” El Beisman, 2014-06-20 10:36:25. http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=257.
“A Brief History of Mexican Art in the City,” in El Beisman. 2013-12-30 07:15:04.
http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=22.
“Franky Piña’s View of Chicago Mexican Art and Nine Theses about Chicago Mexican Art and Space,” in El Beisman, 2014-01-09 10:14:03. http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=33.
“José Gamiel González, Aztlán en Chicago” Contratiempo. Núm. 59.: Oct. 2008: 4.
C. U.S. Latino Culture and Literature
“Literatura puertorriqueña en los Estados Unidos: Una perspectiva general.” Contratiempo. Núm. 36. Mayo 2006: 22
“U. S. Latinos and their Cultural Struggle.” Tropel. Núm. 9. Junio 2000: 12-13.
“Puerto Rico 98: One Hundred Years and Three Artists.” Que Ondee Sola. Vol. 26, nos. 4-5, 1998: 14-32.
“A Meaty Slice of Life” Introduction to Carnicería Rodríguez, Act I. Ecos. Spring 1983: 28-29.
“Chicano Culture at the Latin American Crossroads." Borderlands 3, 2 (Spring 1980): 151 58.
D. Latin American and Global Matters
“Goodbye to the Magic of it all” (on the Death of García Márquez) in El Beisman, 2014-04-19 10:45:52.
http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=170.
“Jean Franco and her Critical Passions.” El Beisman, 2014-04-08. 12:49:28 .http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=150.
“Gunter Grass and Eduardo Galeano,” El Beisman 2015-04-17 05:52:54. http://elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=669
MZ & Alessandro Carrera. “A dialogue about ‘Shadows in the Night’: Moon-Struck: Alessandro Carrera on
Dylan’s Shadows in the Night in the one-hundredth year since Sinatra’s birth in December, 1915.” El Beisman
2015-03-04 04:03:07. http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=607.
“The Decline of Latin American Universities in the New World [Dis]Order.” Arena Cultural. núm. 28. La Raza. Julio 2001: 6.
“Las relaciones eurolatinoamericanas en el nuevo (des)orden mundial”— Parte I, Arena Cultural. núm. 25. La Raza. Avril 2001: 14-15; Parte II. Arena Cultural. núm. 26. La Raza. Mayo 2001: 8-9.
“Globalización y transnacionalización.” Arena Cultural . núm. 22. La Raza. Enero 8, 2001: 2-3. Also in Casa Tomada, 1. Evolución cultural. Oct.-nov. 2004. Virtual and hard copy publication. Variant, updated version.
“Lo latino y lo latinoamericano en el nuevo desorden mundial.” Arena Cultural, núm. 13. La Raza. Abril. 2000: 4-5.
“La novelística postmoderna, el testimonio y la literatura latina en el sistema literario latinoamericano.” Chicago. Arena Cultural núm. 3. La Raza. Junio 1999: 4-6.
1. Central American Perspectives
“Remembering Ernesto Cardenal.” https://confidencial.com.ni/remembering-ernesto-cardenal/
https://www.80grados.net/remembering-ernesto-cardenal/
“Recordando a Jorge Román Lagunas”. Carátula. http://www.caratula.net/edicion-92-inmemoriam/.
“La coyuntura post-insurrección en el norte de Centroamérica: Un breve panorama.” El Beisman. 2014-11-01 11:24:34.
http://www.elbeisman.com/article.php?action=read&id=429.
“Ernesto Cardenal: Su poesía y su vida.” Contratiempo. Núm. 64. abril, 2009: 11.
“Medio siglo de sueños de utopías destruidos.” Arena Cultural, núm. 18. La Raza. Sept. 2000: 11-13.
“Central American Ideologies and Dependency.” Olas. U. of Chicago. March 1981: 6-7
“Leonel Rugama: The Poet and National Questions." Left Curve 3, 1 (Fall 1977): 87 98.
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