The Macondo dimension of South El Monte: Carribean Fragoza in conversation with Hector Tobar
The Macondo dimension of South El Monte: Carribean Fragoza in conversation with Hector Tobar
- February 28, 2022
- Hector Tobar, Chicano/Latino studies and literary journalism, City Lights, Feb. 28, 2022
Héctor Tobar [UCI associate professor of literary journalism and Chicano/Latino studies]:
“I remember starting off my own career thinking there were certain things that I wanted,
certain holes I wanted to fill in United States literature or the literature you’d
find in a bookstore that I didn’t quite feel represented by, in terms of what I had
seen in my life and how my family and I had lived.”
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