Professor Luis Leal is one of the most outstanding scholars of
Mexican, Latin American, and Chicano literatures and the dean of
Mexican American intellectuals in the United States. He was one of
the first senior scholars to recognize the viability and importance
of Chicano literature, and, through his perceptive literary
criticism, helped to legitimize it as a worthy field of study. His
contributions to humanistic learning have brought him many honors,
including Mexico's Aguila Azteca and the United States' National
Humanities Medal.
In this testimonio, or oral history, Luis Leal reflects upon his
early life in Mexico, his intellectual formation at Northwestern
University and the University of Chicago, and his work and
publications as a scholar at several institutions, including the
University of Illinois and the University of California, Santa
Barbara. Through insightful questions, Mario Garcia draws out the
connections between literature and history that have been a primary
focus of Leal's work. He also elicits Leal's assessment of many of
the prominent writers he has known and studied, including Mariano
Azuela, William Faulkner, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Tomas Rivera, Rolando
Hinojosa, Rudolfo Anaya, Elena Poniatowska, Sandra Cisneros,
Richard Rodriguez, and Ana Castillo.
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