Genaro M. Padilla

About The Author

Genaro M. Padilla is Professor of English and Associate Dean in the College of Letters & Sciences at UC Berkeley.

Books by Genaro M. Padilla

The Daring Flight of My Pen

Cultural Politics and Gaspar Perez de Villagra's Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610

By Genaro M. Padilla
In this engaging study Genaro Padilla enters into Villagrá's epic poem of the Oñate expedition to reveal that the soldier was no mere chronicler but that his writing offers a subtle critique of the empire whose expansion he seems to be celebrating.
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The Short Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez
By Angelico Chavez
Edited by Genaro M. Padilla
This anthology is the first collection of fiction published since 1957 by one of New Mexico's leading men of letters.
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