Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

I read this book, many years ago, and i try to get others to read it. I loved it back then, it was different from the other chicano literature i was reading, in fact it was never mentioned, but i found it and i thoroughly enjoyed it. Yeah, he is a big character, and his writing is ecstatic, and some......more

Such a great book. And so revealing about his life. Sad that he experienced so much racist hatred and so much bigotry at such a young age. He was the classic example of the Hurried Child when it comes to anxiety and how the body rebels, in his case with bleeding ulcers. But wow, what a life, so acco......more

the only book i will review, this book is important to me for reasons most people won't understand. it makes me proud of my culture as a CHICANO in america and gives me an identity i did not know i had. this book should be read by every mexican american, and appreciated because it is one of the most......more

When Oscar appears before a judge in Mexico facing the charges of “those nasty things, vile language, gringo arrogance, and americano impatience,” (193), we see a confluence of labels that the narrator has taken upon himself, shaken from himself throughout the novel: he is a lawyer without a license......more

I found this book lying around in a dingy used book shop in Jammu and bought it for Rs. 30. Partly because I needed to know the story of The Great Brown Buffalo, but mostly out of the grief I felt for the state in which lay the autobiography of one of the most interesting characters the sixties mana......more