Selected Sources for Biographical and Historical Background on the Authors' Works
Louise Erdrich--"The Red Convertible"
- GVRL Literature and Its TimesExamines historical background of novel Love Medicine, that includes short story "The Red Convertible."
James Baldwin--"Sonny's Blues"
José Armas--"El Tonto del Barrio"
- Insight New Mexico: Dr José Armasvideo interview
- Serial Kinship: Representing Law Familia in Early Chicano Publications2002 article by Richard T. Rodriguez
Thinking en Español by Call Number: PS 508.M4 R68 2014ISBN: 9780816531189Publication Date: 2014-11-06.From the book: "However the first formal intent to establish a corpus of Chicano literary criticism came with José Armas and the publication of De Colores: Journal of Chicano Expression and Thought: Chicano Literature and Criticism (1977)" -- Donaldo W. Urioste and Francisco A Lomeli
Tim O'Brien--"The Things They Carried"
- GVRL Literature and Its TimesExamines historical background of novel
- "The Things That They Carried" Literary ThemesContains historical overview
Richard Rodriguez--"The Workers"
- Richard Rodriguez --BiographyFrom Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of American Authors
- Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard RodriguezAutobiography. Database: Gale Virtual Reference Library
- The Desertification of Society: A Conversation with Richard RodriguezSource: World Literature Today.
From JSTOR Database - "I don't think I exist": Interview with Richard RodriguezSource: MELUS 28(2) 165-202
From JSTOR Database
Jonathan Swift: "A Modest Proposal"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman--"The Yellow Wallpaper"
- GVRL Literature and Its TimesExamines historical background during the time of the short story
Gabriel Garcia Márquez--The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World"
- Innocent Eréndira: Humor and EntertainmentDiscusses the above short story and others
- Gabriel Garcia MárquezLiterature criticism