Thinking en espa ol takes the important literary figures who shaped our knowledge of Chicano authors and places them in the dynamic arc of Chicana/o criticism and literature. Jes s Rosales interviews foundational Chicana/o literary critics and, through conversations, establishes the path of Chicana/o criticism from 1848 to the present.

Consists of interviews with founding members of Chicano criticism conducted by the author, Jesús Rosales, who, through his conversations with them, shows the path of criticism from 1848 to the present. This book legitimizes Chicana/o criticism as an established discipline, and documents the works of some of the most important critics of Chicano literature at the turn of the twentieth and into the twenty-first century.