Las fabulaciones de Maqroll el gaviero

Many of the fundamental concerns of Chicano and Mexican letters are dealt with by Leal, such as the meaning and origin of the myth of Aztlan, the problem of distinguishing Chicano literature from American and Mexican literature, the consideration of the influence of the Mexican Revolution novel on Chicano narrative, the description of the feminine archetypes of the Mexican Revolution novel on Chicano narrative, and a review of the North American as depicted in Mexican literature.

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

Dice Rodolfo Alonso sobre el autor: "Absolutamente inerme para sobrevivir en la vida cotidiana, en la vida burguesa, los avatares de la existencia y del destino de Baudelaire lo convirtieron también (…) en el primer poeta maldito, en el primer Cristo del arte, al que seguirían tantos ejemplos de “suicidados por la sociedad”, como bien dijo Antonin Artaud".

Aquest llibre contribueix al debat sobre la figura i rellevància de l'obra de Zora Neale Hurston, insigne predecessora de les escriptores afroamericanes actuals. A més d'estudiar la manera que Hurston aplica a la literatura idees sobre política racial de gènere, s'exposa el procés pel qual es va convertir en una figura clau en la lluita per la transformació del cànon literari nord-americà.