{"id":5,"name":"rmedina","url":"","description":"Rub\u00e9n Medina is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist. He belonged to the Movimiento Infrarrealista in Mexico City in 1975-1978, a group of young Latin American poets who included Mario Santiago, Roberto Bola\u00f1o, Bruno Montan\u00e9, Mara Larrosa, Cuauht\u00e9moc M\u00e9ndez, Jos\u00e9 Peguero, and others, searching for the unification of art, politics and everyday life. \r\n\r\nHe has lived in the USA since 1978, where he held diverse types of jobs and participated in several cultural initiatives. Since 1991 he has been professor of Latin American and US Latino Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \r\n\r\nPoetry books are <i>B\u00e1ilame este viento, Mariana<\/i> (1980), which earned the First Prize in the 1980 Chicano literary Contest at UC Irvine, and <i>Amor de Lejos\u2026Fools' Love<\/i> (Arte Publico Press, 1986), a finalist in the 1984 Casa de las Am\u00e9ricas Literary Prize held in Cuba. His poems have appeared in several journals in Latin America and the USA, as well as in the following anthologies: <i>Under the Fifth Sun. Latino Literature from California<\/i> (edited by Rick Heide), <i>En otra voz: Antolog\u00eda de la literatura Hispana de los Estados Unidos<\/i> (edited by Nicholas Kanellos), <i>Literatura Chicana 1965-1995<\/i> (edited by Manuel de Jes\u00fas Hern\u00e1ndez-Guti\u00e9rrez and David William Foster), <i>New Writing From Mexico. A TriQuarterly Collection of Newly Translated Prose and Poetry<\/i> (edited by Reginald Gibbons) and <i>Poetas de una generaci\u00f3n. 1950-1959<\/i> (edited by Evodio Escalante). Other poetry he has written is in two manuscripts \u201cNomadic Nation \/ Naci\u00f3n n\u00f3mada\u201d and \u201cCiudades de otros\u201d. \r\n\r\nIn literary criticism, Rub\u00e9n Medina has also published <i>Autor, autoridad y autorizaci\u00f3n: escritura y po\u00e9tica de Octavio Paz<\/i>, which was published by Colegio de M\u00e9xico in 1999. He has just completed another book on Mexican narrative and film entitled <i>Genealog\u00edas del presente y pasado. Literatura y cine meXicanos<\/i>. Currently, he is working on a book of short stories, entitled <i>El silencio del salvaje<\/i>.","link":"https:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu?author_name=rmedina","slug":"rmedina","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9ce23ebeffe7cbe1734d70e4381a887e?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9ce23ebeffe7cbe1734d70e4381a887e?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9ce23ebeffe7cbe1734d70e4381a887e?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}