The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature is a project of the national research programme Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage of the United States, which was founded to recover and preserve the literary legacy of Hispanic people. Similar to, but broader in scope than, the recent Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature (Ramirez, 2008), this three volume encyclopedia provides an invaluable additional contribution to the scholarship of Hispanic literature. In his introduction, Kanellos explains that while Spanish speaking writers have been documenting the events of the New World and producing creative works since colonial times, their contributions to the...