Roberto Cantú is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies and Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the editor of An Insatiable Dialectic: Essays on Critique, Modernity, and Humanism (2013); The Willow and the Spiral: Essays on Octavio Paz and the Poetic Imagination (2014); The Reptant Eagle: Essays on Carlos Fuentes and the Art of the Novel (2015); Equestrian Rebels: Critical Perspectives on Mariano Azuela and the Novel of the Mexican Revolution (2016); The Forked Juniper: Critical Perspectives on Rudolfo Anaya (2016); and Border Folk Balladeers: Critical Studies on Américo Paredes (2018). In 1990, Cantú received Cal State LA’s Outstanding Professor Award, and was recognized at his campus with the President’s Distinguished Professor Award in 2010.
10 Ebooks by Roberto Cantu
Roberto Cantu: Reptant Eagle
Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012) was the most prominent novelist in contemporary Mexico and, until his recent death, one of the leading voices in Latin America’s Boom generation. He received the most …
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€95.88
Roberto Cantu: Border Folk Balladeers
Americo Paredes distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, short story writer, poet, folklorist, and as Professor of English and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Admired as …
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€112.72
Roberto Cantu: Willow and the Spiral
Octavio Paz (Mexico, 1914-1998) was one of the foremost poets and essayists of the twentieth century. Read in translations into many of the world’s languages, Paz received numerous awards and prizes …
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€81.41
Roberto Cantu: Insatiable Dialectic
This book includes studies by leading philosophers and cultural critics from Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The essays represent different philosophical traditions and contrasting cultural …
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€81.62
Roberto Cantu: Equestrian Rebels
Mariano Azuela (Mexico, 1873-1952) was a medical doctor by profession, recipient of Mexico’s Premio Nacional de Literatura (1949), a distinguished member of El Colegio Nacional and, by mid-century, …
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€96.08
Roberto Cantu: Scholiast’s Quill
Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959) was the embodiment of the Latin American poet, essayist, and literary theorist during the first half of the twentieth century. With an astonishing intellectual curiosity and …
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€113.12
Roberto Cantu: Alfredo Vea’s Narrative Trilogy
With the publication of La Maravilla (1993), Alfredo Vea entered the world of letters in full possession of his craft as a novelist, blending narrative fiction and engaging anecdotes with allusions …
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€126.24
Roberto Cantu: Mexican Mural Art
This volume collects the work of prominent art critics, art historians, and literary critics who study the art, lives, and times of the leading Mexican muralists Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera …
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€111.98
Roberto Cantu: Homecoming Trails in Mexican American Cultural History
This volume brings together a number of critical essays on three selected topics: biography, nationhood, and globalism. Written exclusively for this book by specialists from Mexico, Germany, and the …
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€112.09
Roberto Cantu: Jose Antonio Villarreal and Pocho
This book blends biography, history, and literary criticism in its analysis of Pocho (1959), Jose Antonio Villarreal’s evocative and semi-autobiographical novel about Richard Rubio, a Mexican …
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€118.20
