ISBN: 1-58765-243-9 List price: $207 Most public and college libraries will need this set, as will high schools that teach multicultural literature and where literary research is required.		Booklist - American Library Association - Booklist is ALA's official review source for current materials worthy of consideration for purchase by small and medium-sized public and school libraries. The full text of Booklist's review of Notable Latino Writers is reproduced below. Booklist February 2006 Notable Latino Writers. 3v. 2005. 1,000 p. illus. indexes. Salem, $207 (1-58765-243-9). 810.9 This set will be extremely helpful to high-school and college students who need to write papers about or choose works to read from Latin American authors. The editors used a very broad definition of Latino: "authors living in the Americas who speak-or descend from those who spoke-any romance (hence 'Latin') language, as well as those of Latin American descent living in the United States, who often may speak only English." The essays are compiled from other Magill resources: Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition (2004), Critical Survey of Literature series, and Identities and Issues in Literature (1997). Each signed entry begins with the author's name, birth date and place, and death date and place, as appropriate. Next is a complete and current list (to 2005) of the author's work by genre and in chronological order. The biographical sketch follows and includes a pronunciation guide for the author's name. Black-and-white portraits are included for most authors. Each essay also includes the Masterplots entry for the author's most recognizable work and a sidebar excerpt of several sentences from that work. The entry ends with a bibliography of secondary sources of information. More than 120 authors are profiled, among them familiar names such as Isabel Allende, Jorge Luis Borges, Sandra Cisneros, Laura Esquivel, and Gary Soto. Each volume has a table of contents as well as a list of the contents in all the volumes. The third volume includes general essays on different aspects of Latino literature. A list of other authors who were not profiled is sorted by country of origin, with titles of a few works. The bibliography in volume 3 is sorted into 11 categories such as race, politics, sexuality, and women's studies. Other reference aids include a separate list of electronic resources; a chronological list of authors; and indexes by genre, geographical location, person, title, and subject. Most public and college libraries will need this set, as will high schools that teach multicultural literature and where literary research is required.
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