Daniel F Cooper Alarcon

Interests

Research

Travel literature, Latino/Latina literature, American literature, Mexican culture

Teaching

Latino/Latina literature, American literature, travel literature

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Cooper Alarcon, D. F. (2024). Travel Narratives, Travel Fictions. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books (Rowman and Littlefield).

Chapters

• Cooper Alarcon, D. F. (2018). "The Aztec Palimpsest: Toward a New Understanding of Aztlan, Cultural Identity, and History.". In Aztlan: Essays on the Chicano Homeland (revised and expanded second edition)(pp 30 pages). University of New Mexico Press.
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  This is a previously published article that the editors (Francisco Lomeli and Rudolfo Anaya) have asked me to allow them to reprint in the revised second edition of the important anthology _Aztlan: Essays on the Chicano Homeland_, a major resource for anyone working in Chicano/Chicana studies.
• Cooper Alarcon, D. F. (2015). "All the Pretty Mexicos: Cormac McCarthy's Mexican Representations." Note: this is a re-printed article.. In All the Pretty Horses: A Critical Edition, edited by Harold Bloom. Note: this is an e-book.. Chelsea House House Publishers/Infobase Learning.
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  This is a reprint of an article of mine which first appeared in Southwestern American Literature in 1999. I am the sole author. The critical edition is an e-book.

Journals/Publications

• Cooper Alarcon, D. F. (2016). "Travel Narratives, Travel Fictions: The Prescient Case of Paul Bowles". Arizona Quarterly, 72(1), 25-50.

Others

• Cooper Alarcon, D. F. (2014, April). Citation of "All the Pretty Mexicos: Cormac McCarthy's Mexican Representations". Elisa Bordin, _Masculinity and Westerns_ Verona: Ombre Corte, 2014..
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  My essay on Cormac McCarthy is cited and discussed in Elisa Bordin's 2014 book.
• Cooper Alarcon, D. F. (2014, March). Reader's report of "Mexico Goes to Disney World.". Latin American Research Review.