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• A Glossary of Spanish Words for Under the Feet of Jesus

More about Helen María Viramontes

• Helena María Viramontes from Contemporary Authors
• Sonia Saldívar-Hull. Helena María Viramontes from The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 122: Chicano Writers, Second Series

Castillo, Debra A. "Helena María Viramontes." Latino and Latina Writers. 549-568.

Ref PS153.H56 L39 2004

Helena María Viramontes from Stuart Bernstein Representation for Artists.

Heredia Juanita. "Viramontes, Helena Maria." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States.321-322. Ref E184.S75 O97 2005.

Helena María Viramontes from VG: Voices from the Gap

Reviews of the Book and Interviews

647-662. Academic Search Complete. EBSCOhost. Otterbein University Lib., Westerville. 5 June 2007

Kevane, Bridget A., and Helena María Viramontes. "Viramontes on O'Connor." Flannery O'Connor Review 4.

(2006): 5-11. Humanities International Complete. EBSCOhost. Otterbein University Lib., Westerville.

22 June 2007.

Kevane, Bridget A., and Juanita Heredia. "Praying for Knowledge: An Interview with Helena María Viramontes."

Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers. 1st ed. Albuquerque:

U New Mexico P, 2000. 141-154. PS153.H56 K48 2000.

Martinez, Demetria. "What a Moment, When the 'Voiceless' Speak!" National Catholic Reporter 5 Apr. 1996:

16. Academic Search Complete. EBSCOhost. Otterbein University Lib., Westerville, OH. 5 June 2007

Moore, Deborah Owen. "Art, Imagination, and Violence: An Interview with Helena María Viramontes."

Interdisciplinary Humanities 22.2 (2005): 53-60. Academic Search Complete. EBSCOhost.

Otterbein University Lib., Westerville. 5 June 2007.

"Under the Feet of Jesus." Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers. Salem, 2000. Literary Reference Center.

EBSCO. Otterbein University Lib., Westerville. 5 June 2007.

Reference Books for Overviews & Facts

Cartwright, Rita Cantos, and H. Condé. Human Rights in the United States: A Dictionary and

Documents. 2007. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2000. Electronic Reference Books

Castillo, Debra A. "Helena María Viramontes." Latino and Latina Writers. Ed. Alan-Durán West. New

York: Charles Scribner's, 2004. 549-568. Ref PS153.H56 L39 2004 v. 1-2

Eastman, Clyde. "Migrant Farmworkers." Encyclopedia of Rural America: The Land and People.

Ed. Gary Goreham. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1997. 466-469. Ref E169.12 .E5 v.2

Gibney, Matthew J., and Randall Hansen. Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present. 2007.

OhioLINK Electronic Reference Books

Hammerback, John C., and Richard J. Jensen. "César Chavez (1927-1993)." Leaders from the 1960s: A

Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism. Ed. David De Leon. Westport:

Greenwood, 1994.54-61. Ref HN59 .L43

Immigration in America Today: An Encyclopedia. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2006.

Ref JV6465 .I4754 2006

Meier, Matt S. "César Chavez." Notable Latino Americans: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport:

Greenwood, 1997. 431. Ref E184.S75 M435 1997

Mexico: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Culture and History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO,

2004. OhioLINK Electronic Book Center

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. New York: Oxford UP, 2005.

Ref E185.S75 O97 2005 v.1-4