Criticism in the borderlands : studies in Chicano literature, culture, and ideology
Hectór 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 volume as a whole aims at generating new ways of understanding what counts as culture and "theory" and who counts as a theorist. A selected and annotated bibliography of contemporary Chicano literary criticism is also included. By recovering neglected authors and texts and introducing readers to an emergent Chicano canon, by introducing new perspectives on American literary history, ethnicity, gender, culture, and the literary process itself, Criticism in the Borderlands is an agenda-setting collection that moves beyond previous scholarship to open up the field of Chicano literary studies and to define anew what is American literature
Aufsatzsammlung
xv, 289 pages ; 24 cm
9780822311379, 9780822311430, 0822311372, 0822311437
22859074
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