Criticism in the borderlands : studies in Chicano literature, culture, and ideology
Héctor Calderón (Editor), José David Saldívar (Editor), Rolando Hinojosa
This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a remarkable range of texts-both old and new-draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist. The editors have organized essays around four board themes: the situation of Chicano literary studies within American literary history and debates about the "canon"; representations of the Chicana/o subject; genre, ideology, and history; and the aesthetics of Chicano literature. The volu
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xv, 289 pages)
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Narrative, ideology, and the reconstruction of American literary history / Ramón Saldívar
The rewriting of American literary history / Luis Leal
The theoretical subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American feminism / Norma Alacón
Imprisoned narrative? Or lies, secrets, and silence in New Mexico women's autobiography / Genaro Padilla
Body, spirit, and the text: Alma Villanueva's Life Span / Elizabeth J. Ordóñez
Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters: the novelist as ethnographer / Alvina E. Quintana
Fables of the fallen guy / Renato Rosaldo
The novel and the community of readers: rereading Tomás Rivera's Y no se lo tragó la tierra / Héctor Calderón
Ideological discourses in Arturo Islas's The Rain God / Rosaura Sánchez
Conceptualizing Chicano critical discourse / Angie Chabram
Sites of struggle: immigration, deportation, prison, and exile / Barbara Harlow. (cont.) Chicano border narratives as cultural critique / Jóse David Saldivár
On Chicano poetry and the political age: Corridos as social drama / Teresa McKenna
Feminism on the border: from gender politics to geopolitics / Sonia Saldívar-Hull
Dancing with the devil: society, gender, and the political unconscious in Mexican-American South Texas / José E. Limón
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010