September 15 - October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month
Curious about this celebration? Here are some quick facts:
- Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates the culture and traditions of those who trace their roots to Mexico, Spain and the Spanish speaking countries of Central America, South America and the Caribbean
- Hispanic Heritage Month has been celebrated since 1988
- September 15 marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month because it is the anniversary of independence for five Latin American Countries including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua
To honor this celebration we have put up a display in the library which includes:
- Fiction by Hispanic Authors
- Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
- La Casa en Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
- The Floating Borderlands: twenty-five years of U.S. Hispanic Literature edited by Lauro Flores
- Herencia: the anthology of Hispanic literature in the United States edited by Nicolas Kanellos
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Yo! by Julia Alvarez
- Poetry by Hispanic Writers
- Antonio Machado: Selected Poems translated by Alan S. Trueblood
- Cool Salsa: bilingual poems on growing up Latino in the United States edited by Lori M. Carlson
- Daughters of the Fifth Sun: a collection of Latina fiction and poetry edited by Bryce Milligan
- Paper Dance: 55 Latino poets edited by Victor Hernandez Cruz
- Red Hot Salsa: bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States edited by Lori M. Carlson
- Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda edited by Ben Belitt
- Books about Hispanic Artists and Authors
- Contemporary American Success Stories: famous people of Hispanic heritage by Barbara J. Marvis
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Susan Muaddi Darraj
- Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment by Alfonso E. Perez and Eleanor A. Sayre
- Jose Marti by Jon Sterngrass
- Salvador Dali, 1904 - 1989
Happy Reading,
Miss Kenny
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