Libros de Luis Leal (2 libros)

Leal recounts his experiences as a "child of the Mexican Revolution, " recalling the entrance of Villa and Zapata into Mexico City. He describes his life in Chicago from 1927 to 1943 and then in the Philippines as a member of the American armed forces. He also discusses his academic career and his contributions to Chicano literary criticism. The unusual format of a conversation between two friends gives readers a taste of the "tertulias" that Don Luis hosts, at which colleagues, friends, and students discuss literature, life, and art, thus reviving the Hispanic tradition of the "literary...

Demetrio Macias, a peace-loving Indian, becomes caught up in the rebel cause, and climbs the ranks in Pancho Villa's army only to have the people turn against him in the wake of defeat.