El Grito and Grito del Sol: Five Berkeley Issues from Quinto Sol and Tonatiuh International, 1971-1976

El Grito

Publication Date: 1971

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El Grito and Grito del Sol, five issues of Berkeley Chicano literary and intellectual periodical publishing from Quinto Sol Publications and Tonatiuh International spanning 1971 to 1976. The archive charts a decisive phase in Berkeley Chicano publishing, when Quinto Sol Publications and later Tonatiuh International used the journal form to consolidate Chicano literary production, editorial self-definition, and cultural geography. The Fall 1971 issue of El Grito, issued from Quinto Sol's Shattuck Avenue address and identifying itself as "A Journal of Contemporary Mexican American Thought," places Octavio I. Romano V., Herminio Ríos C., and Andrés Ybarra within the institutional core of early Chicano letters, while its contents move between contemporary writing and longer Mexican and Indigenous textual traditions through pieces such as Rafael Jesús González's "Nahuatl poetry" and a cluster of nineteenth-century titled poems dated 1856, 1864, 1879, and 1880. El Grito / Grito del Sol. Berkeley, California: Quinto Sol Publications and Tonatiuh International, 1971-1976. Archive of 5 issues, 1971-1976. [1] Romano V., Octavio I., Herminio Ríos C., and Andrés Ybarra, eds. El Grito: A Journal of Contemporary Mexican American Thought. Berkeley: Quinto Sol Publications, 1971. Vol. V, no. 1, Fall 1971. [2] Romano V., Octavio I., and Herminio Ríos C., eds. El Grito: A Journal of Contemporary Mexican American Thought. Berkeley: Quinto Sol Publications, 1972. Vol. VI, no. 1, Fall 1972. [3] Romano V., Octavio I., ed. Grito del Sol: A Chicano Quarterly. Berkeley: Tonatiuh International, 1976. Year One, Book Two, April-June 1976. [4] Romano V., Octavio I., ed. Grito del Sol: A Chicano Quarterly. Berkeley: Tonatiuh International, 1976. Year One, Book Three, July-September 1976. [5] Romano V., Octavio I., ed. Grito del Sol: A Chicano Quarterly. Berkeley: Tonatiuh International, 1976. Year One, Book Four, October-December 1976. By 1976, under the title Grito del Sol: A Chicano Quarterly, Romano's editorial project had widened into a venue that carried teatro, barrio fiction, Chicana writing, satire, children's literature, and speculative prose in the same run, including Estela Portillo Trambley's "If It Weren't for the Honeysuckle.," the Landy brothers' plays "Jamanegs" and "La chamaca brava," the science-fiction short story "Quasorp," and the trilingual "Koyotl uan toctli." The journals' repeated use of "Spanish and Chicano place names en Califas," along with Quinto Sol's self-description as an independent Mexican American publishing house, makes the publication itself evidence of how Chicano intellectuals in Northern California linked literature, language, editorial control, and territorial naming into a coherent print culture during the formative years of Chicano studies. Across these issues, the publication moves from El Grito's earlier framing as a journal of contemporary Mexican American thought toward Grito del Sol's explicit designation as a Chicano quarterly, while preserving Berkeley imprint history, editorial continuity, and the language through which the journal defined its own place in Chicano print culture. Light corner wear and soiling; interiors generally clean. Overall very good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: El Grito and Grito del Sol: Five Berkeley Issues from Quinto Sol and Tonatiuh International, 1971-1976
• Publication Date: 1971
• Binding: Soft cover
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  • Chicano & Latin American History
  • Archive
  • American History by State