Marc Zimmerman
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Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Zimmerman lives in Chicago. Biography: Marc Zimmerman is a specialist in Latin American and Latino cultural studies and literature best known for his work on general theoretical issues in relation to Latin and Central American, Caribbean and Latino themes, as well as for his work as director of the publication project, Global CASA/LACASA (Latin American and Latino/a Cultural Studies and Activities Arena). Recently he has emerged as a fiction writer, with several stories and books published. Zimmerman has written and edited a wide range of books with special series on Central American revolutionary writing and history, on Globalization and Cultural Studies in Latin America and, most recently, series on Central American as well as U.S. and Midwestern Latino Cultural Studies. Zimmerman is Professor Emeritus in Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and in Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston, where he served as chair between 2002 and 2008. In addition, he worked as a counselor and trouble shooter with Latinos in Minnesota, a Cuban refugee camp in Wisconsin, and a student center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also worked in the Ministerio de Cultura in Sandinista Nicaragua, and was the only U.S. representative on Cuba's Casa de las Americas jury in 1994. Beginning his career as a writer of plays and fiction, he has recently completed Cylcle I of his series of “memoir/fiction" books, “Illusions of memory,” dealing with his Jewish-American, Italian, Latin American, Latino, Caribbean and other experiences; he has also written Martin and Marvin, the first book publishing of Cycle II.
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Web: https://www.lacasachicagobooks.org/about-marc-zimmerman
Selected Titles
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Voices from the silence : ISBN: 0896801985 OCLC: 38549774 Ohio University Center for International Studies, Athens : 1998. |