Resource Guide
Other Works by Rudolfo Anaya:
Heart of Aztlán. Berkeley, California, Justa, 1976.
Tortuga. Berkeley, California, Justa, 1979.
The Legend of La Llorona. Berkeley, California, Tonatiuh-QuintoSol, 1984.
Lord of the Dawn: The Legend of Quetzalcoatl. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1987.
Alburquerque. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Zia Summer. New York, Warner, 1995.
Jalamanta: A Message from the Desert. New York, Warner, 1996.
Rio Grande Fall. New York, Warner Books, 1996.
Shaman Winter. New York, Warner Books, 1999.
Short Stories
The Silence of Llano. Berkeley, California, Tonatiuh-Quinto Sol, 1982.
Uncollected Short Stories
"The Captain," in A Decade of Hispanic Literature. Houston, Revista Chincano-Riqueña, 1982.
"The Road to Platero," in Rocky Mountain (St. James, Colorado), April 1982.
"The Village Which the Gods Painted Yellow," in Nuestro, January-February 1983.
"B. Traven Is Alive and Well in Cuernavaca," in Cuentos Chicanos, revised edition. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1984.
"In Search of Epifano," in Voces. Albuquerque, El Norte-Academia, 1987.
Plays
The Season of La Llorona (produced Albuquerque, 1979).
Who Killed Don Jose? (produced Albuquerque, 1987).
The Farolitos of Christmas (produced Albuquerque, 1987). NewYork, Hyperion, 1995.
Screenplay (documentary)
Bilingualism: Promise for Tomorrow, 1976.
Poetry
The Adventures of Juan Chicaspatas. Houston, Arte Publico Press, 1985.
Other
A Chicano in China. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1986.
Flow of the River. Albuquerque, Hispanic Culture Foundation, 1988.
The Anaya Reader. New York, Warner, 1995.
Maya's Children: The Story of La Llorona, illustrated by Maria Baca. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1997.
Farolitos for Abuelo, illustrated by Edward Gonzales. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1998.
My Land Sings: Stories from the Rio Grande, illustrated byAmyCordova. New York, Morrow Junior Books, 1999.
Roadrunner's Dance, illustrated by David Diaz. New York, HyperionBooks for Children, 2000.
An Elegy on the Death of Cesar Chavez, with illustrations by GasparEnriquez. El Paso, Texas, Cinco Puntos Press, 2000.
Contributor, Muy Macho: Latin Men Confront Their Manhood, edited by Ray Gonzales. New York, Anchor, 1996.
Contributor, The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature, edited by Lauro Flores. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1999.
Contributor, Saints and Sinners: The American Catholic Experience through Stories, Memoirs, Essays, and Commentary, edited by Greg Tobin. New York, Doubleday, 1999.
Editor, with Jim Fisher, Voices from the Rio Grande. Albuquerque, Rio Grande Writers Association, 1976.
Editor, with Antonio Márquez, Cuentos Chicanos. Albuquerque, New America, 1980; revised edition, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1984.
Editor, with Simon J. Ortiz, A Ceremony of Brotherhood 1680-1980. Albuquerque, Academia, 1981.
Editor, Voces: An Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers. Albuquerque, El Norte-Academia, 1987.
Editor, with Francisco A. Lomeli, Atzlan: Essays on the Chicano Homeland. Albuquerque, El Norte-Academia, 1989.
Editor, Tierra: Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico. El Paso, Texas, Cinco Puntos Press, 1989.
Foreword, Dictionary of Hispanic Biography, edited by Joseph C. Tardiff and L. Mpho Mabunda. Detroit, Gale, 1996.
Translator, Cuentos: Tales from the Hispanic Southwest, Based on Stories Originally Collected by Juan B. Rael, edited by José Griego y Maestas. Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1980.
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