Criticism in the Borderlands

Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology
Herausgeber: Calderón, Héctor; Saldívar, José David

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Produktbeschreibung

An anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a range of texts, both old and new, drawing on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies - from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist.

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"Criticism in the Borderlands maps the significant contribution of Chicano and Chicana literary and cultural studies toward defining a culture of resistance in the United States. . . ." --Suzanne Oboler, Novel: A Forum on Fiction

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780822311379
• ISBN-10: 0822311372
• Artikelnr.: 34759277

Autorenporträt

Héctor Calderón and José David Saldívar, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Foreword: Redefining American Literature / Roland Hinojosa xi
Editors' Introduction: Criticism in the Borderlands 1
Part I. Institutional Studies and the Literary Canon
Narrative, Ideology, and the Reconstruction of American Literary History /
Ramón Saldívar 11
The Rewriting of American Literary History / Luis Leal 21
The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American
Feminism / Norma Alarcón 28
Part II. Representations of the Chicana/o Subject: Race, Class, and Gender
Imprisoned Narrative? Or Lies, Secrets, and Silence in New Mexico Women's
Autobiography / Genaro Padilla 43
Body, Spirit, and the Text: Alma Villanueva's Life Span / Elizabeth J.
Ordóñez 61
Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters: The Novelist as Ethnographer /
Alvina E. Quintana 72
Fables of the Fallen Guy / Renato Rosaldo 84
Part III. Genre, Ideology, and History
The Novel and the Community of Readers: Rereading Tomás Rivera's Y no se le
tragó la tierra / Héctor Calderón 97
Ideological Discourses in Arturo Islas's The Rain God / Rosaura Sánchez 114
Conceptualizing Chicano Critical Discourse / Angie Chabram 127
Sites of Struggle: Immigration, Deportation, Prison, and Exile / Barbara
Harlow 149
Part IV. Aesthetics of the Border
Chicano Border Narratives as Cultural Critique / José David Saldívar 167
On Chicano Poetry and the Political Age: Corridos as Social Drama / Teresa
McKenna 188
Feminism on the Border / From Gender Politics to Geopolitics / Sonia
Saldívar-Hull 203
Dancing with the Devil: Society, Gender, and the Political Unconcious in
Mexican-American South Texas / José E. Limón 221
Works Cited 237
Selected and Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Chicano Literary
Criticism 260
Index 275
Contributors 287