American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1722 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Oscar Hijuelos and the Latino Novel
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The idea
The witness names Oscar Hijuelos, the Cuban-born author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, of nineteen eighty-nine, as a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, and groups him with Cisneros and Rudolfo Anaya as the leading Latino American writers of the period.
In practice
A Cuban-born novelist, and a Pulitzer.
Where people slip
Latino writing covers several national origins.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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