Beyond bounds : cross-cultural essays on Anglo, American Indian, & Chicano literature / Robert Franklin Gish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gish, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Southwest, New--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.

American literature--Indian authors.

American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.

American literature--Mexican American authors.

Mexican Americans in literature.

Southwest, New--In literature.

Southwest, New.

New Southwest.

Indians in literature.

Physical Description:

siv, 170 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1996]

Summary:

A healthy disrespect for cultural exclusiveness marks the essays collected here, a series of appreciations and explications of writers not ordinarily considered together. As the author notes in his introduction, his own biography and career are reflected in this assemblage. An Anglo of mixed Irish, German, and American Indian heritage who grew up in a Hispanic neighborhood in Albuquerque, Gish has always known that "one's place on the academic, social, or cultural 'bus' (back, front, passenger, or driver) changes with the times, as does the bus itself". Here he shares with us not only his recent enthusiasmshe was among the first critics to consider such minority writers as Rudolfo Anaya, James Welch, Ray Young Bear, and Jimmy Santiago Baca, and his essays on them serve as excellent introductions to their work - but also his continuing appreciation for the Anglo writers he read as a young man. Today Charles Lummis, Erna and Harvey Fergusson, and Witter Bynner are often dismissed as paternalistic outsiders or colonialists. In disentangling their literary strengths from these stereotypes, Gish reminds us that we gain nothing from exclusivity. His openness to the varieties of American literature will make this book useful to a wide range of readers, especially students and teachers of college and high school literature classes.

Contents:

Charles F. Lummis and Isleta Pueblo

Erna Fergusson's travels toward exoticism

Harvey Fergusson's legacy

Witter Bynner, poet in adobia

The word medicine of James Welch

Listening to Ray A. Young Bear

La Llorona, magic realism, and the frontier

Curanderismo and witchery in the fiction of Rudolfo A. Anaya

America as Aztlán : landscape, myth, and ethnicity in Rudolfo Anaya's Heart of Aztlán and Alburquerque, and Jimmy Santiago Baca's Martín and Meditations on the South Valley

Jimmy Santiago Baca : writing the borderlands of ethnic and cultural crisis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0826317154

OCLC:

33133469