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Criticism in the borderlands : studies in Chicano literature, culture, and ideology / edited by Hector Calderon and Jose David Saldivar ; with a foreword by Rolando Hinojosa.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Post-contemporary interventions.
- Post-contemporary interventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Mexican-American Border Region--History and criticism.
- Mexican Americans--Intellectual life.
- Mexican Americans.
- Mexican Americans in literature.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Intellectual life.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Mexican-American Border Region--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Narrative, ideology, and the reconstruction of American literary history / Ramon Saldivar
- The rewriting of American literary history / Luis Leal
- The theoretical subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American feminism / Norma Alacon
- 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. Ordonez
- 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 Tomas Rivera's Y no se lo trago la tierra / Hector Calderon
- Ideological discourses in Arturo Islas's The Rain God / Rosaura Sanchez
- Conceptualizing Chicano critical discourse / Angie Chabram
- Sites of struggle: immigration, deportation, prison, and exile / Barbara Harlow
- (cont.) Chicano border narratives as cultural critique / Jose David Saldivar
- On Chicano poetry and the political age: Corridos as social drama / Teresa McKenna
- Feminism on the border: from gender politics to geopolitics / Sonia Saldivar-Hull
- Dancing with the devil: society, gender, and the political unconscious in Mexican-American South Texas / Jose E. Limon.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-273) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613062710
- 9781283062718
- 1283062712
- 9780822382355
- 0822382350
- OCLC:
- 191222182
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