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1 online resource (xv, 289 pages) |
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Post-contemporary interventions |
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Post-contemporary interventions.
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| 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 |
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(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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-273) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism
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American literature -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History and criticism
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Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life
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Mexican Americans in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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American literature -- Mexican American authors
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Intellectual life
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Literature
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Mexican Americans in literature
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Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life
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Literatur
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Bibliografie
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Letterkunde.
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Spaans.
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Amerikaans.
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Mexicaanse Amerikanen.
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Grensgebieden.
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Mexican-American Border Region -- Intellectual life
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Mexican-American Border Region -- In literature
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North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
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Chicanos.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Calderón, Héctor, editor
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Saldívar, José David, editor
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Hinojosa, Rolando, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9780822382355 |
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0822382350 |
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