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USC Visions & Voices: Flor Y Canto Visions and Voices and the USC Libraries have collaborated to create a series of resource guides that allow you to build on your experiences at many Visions and Voices events. Explore the resources listed below and continue your journey of inquiry and discovery! USC LIBRARIES RESOURCE GUIDE VISIONS AND VOICES and the USC LIBRARIES, in collaboration with the DEPARTMENTS OF AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY and SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE AT USC COLLEGE and EL CENTRO CHICANO, hosts a three-day event entitled Flor y Canto: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, featuring writers and performance artists from the first groundbreaking festival in 1973 and representation from new generations. To help you learn more about these and other Chicano and Latino poets and writers, librarians at USC LIBRARIES’ SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, IVAN E CALIMANO (cataloger) and BARBARA ROBINSON of the BOECKMANN CENTER FOR IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES, have prepared this guide to readings and resources. See also their library guide on this topic at libguides.usc.edu/florycanto. Selected Anthologies The following anthologies include works by poets and writers from the 1973 and 2010 Flor y Canto festivals. They are available in the Doheny Library stacks or in the Boeckmann Center’s collection in the Special Collections department on the second floor of Doheny Library. After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties (1992) From the Barrio: A Chicano Anthology (1973) Boeckmann Center P S 591 . H 5 8 A 6 9 19 92 Boeckmann Center P S 5 0 8 . M 4 S 3 Cenzontle, Chicano Writings of the 80’s (1982) In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the Boeckmann Center P S 5 0 8 . M 4 C 53 19 8 2 United States (1994) Doheny Library P S 5 0 8 . H 57 I 5 19 9 4 The Chicano/Latino Literary Prize: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (2008) Pachuco Children Hurl Stones (2005) Doheny Library P S 5 0 8 . H 57C 47 2 0 0 8 Boeckmann Center P S 5 0 8 . M 4 P 2 8 2 0 0 5 Festival de Flor y Canto: An Anthology of Chicano Southwest Tales: A Contemporary Collection (2008) Literature (1973–1977) Grand Library P S 6 47. M 49 S 6 8 19 8 6 Boeckmann Center P S 5 0 8 . M 4 F 47 The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (2007) Fiesta in Aztlan: Anthology of Chicano poetry (1981) Doheny Library P S 5 91 . H 5 8 W 5 6 2 0 0 Doheny Library P S 5 91 . M 49 C 5 Continued Key Databases Chicano Database A major bibliographic database Mexican Americans and Chicano and Latino Studies HAPI Online Database of articles from and about Latin America and related to Chicano and Latino studies Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama and Fiction Most comprehensive database of literary works by 20th c. Chicano and Latino writers Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States Covers U.S. Latino history and culture. See article of particular interest by Nicolás Kanellos on poetry. Flor y Canto Films The Boeckmann Center Film Collection holds DVDs on these poets and writers from the 1973 USC Festival de Flor y Canto. Inquire at the Special Collections Reference Desk. They are also available in the USC Digital Library (digitallibrary.usc.edu). Oscar Zeta Acosta BKMDVD 237 Elias Hruska-Cortez BKMDVD 227 Teresa Palomo Acosta BKMDVD 231 Enrique LaMadrid BKMDVD 219 Alurista BKMDVD 232 E.A. Mares BKMDVD 209 Jorge Alvarez BKMDVD 230 Alejandro Murguía BKMDVD 234 Estevan Arellano BKMDVD 236 Antonio G. Ortiz BKMDVD 212 Ronald Arias BKMDVD 220 Pedro Ortiz Vásquez BKMDVD 203 Tomás Atencio BKMDVD 211 Javier Pacheco BKMDVD 226 Jeronimo Blanco BKMDVD 228 Tomás Rivera BKMDVD 205 Olivia Castellano BKMDVD 222 Benjamin Luna BKMDVD 233 Vibiana Chamberlain BKMDVD 217 Lynne Romero BKMDVD 210 Juan Contreras BKMDVD 215 Ponce Javier Ruiz BKMDVD 229 Veronica Cunningham BKMDVD 214 Omar Salinas BKMDVD 208 David Gómez BKMDVD 213 Raúl R Salinas BKMDVD 224 Juan Gómez-Quiñones BKMDVD 204 Ricardo Sánchez BKMDVD 235 Jorge Gonzales BKMDVD 225 Frank Sifuentes BKMDVD 202 Barbara Hernández BKMDVD 206 Mario Suárez BKMDVD 207 Juan Felipe Herrera BKMDVD 223 Marcela Trujillo BKMDVD 218 R.R. Hinojosa Smith BKMDVD 221 Avelardo Valdez BKMDVD 216 www.usc.edu/libraries/visions_voices University of Southern California.
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