They absorb solutes and water from the tubule cells after these substances are reabsorbed from the filtrate. The vasa recta arise from the efferent arterioles draining the juxtamedullary glomeruli. (vas= vessa; recta = straight) The vasa recta are part of the kidney's urine-concentrating mechanism.
Other Mexican-American authors of this era do not really fit under the label of Chicano literature. Rolando Hinojosa Smith (Mercedes, Texas, 1929) is an experimental writer whose work has been compared to William Faulknerâs. In 1976 he won the prestigious Casa de las Americas AmÃ©ricas prize for his Novel Klail. city
The premature death of Ricardo Snchez in 1995 marked the passing of an almost legendary figure in Chicano literature and in the Chicano political movement. A troubadour of Chicano Movement poetry, he established an anti-aesthetic that became the norm. Snchez's autobiographical poetry forges a link between genres of the past and present and establishes him as the first great tragic figure of contemporary Chicano literature.