Josefina Niggli, Mexican American Writer: A Critical Biography

by Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez

Book Overview

This is the story of a remarkable woman whose artistic mission was to relate Mexican cultural history to English-language readers. A world-renowned playwright in the 1930s and best-selling novelist in the 1940s, Josefina Niggli published at a time when Chicana/o literature was not yet recognized as such. Her works revealed Mexico from an insider's point of view, although she found herself struggling with publishers who wanted an American hero pitted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826342728
• ISBN13: 9780826342720
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"