Criticism in the borderlands : studies in Chicano literature, culture, and ideology / edited by Héctor Calderón and José David Saldívar ; with a foreword by Rolando Hinojosa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Calderón, Héctor.

Saldívar, José David.

Series:

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-American Border Region--Intellectual life.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Mexican-American Border Region--In literature.

Mexican Americans--Intellectual life.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans in literature.

American literature--Mexican American authors.

Intellectual life.

Literature.

North America--Mexican-American Border Region.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 289 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1991.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-273) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

Other Format:

Online version: Criticism in the borderlands.

ISBN:

0822311372

9780822311379

0822311437

9780822311430

OCLC:

22859074

Online:

French equivalent / Équivalent français

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