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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 volume as a whole aims at generating new ways of understanding what counts as culture and “theory” and who counts as a theorist. A selected and annotated bibliography of contemporary Chicano literary criticism is also included.
By recovering neglected authors and texts and introducing readers to an emergent Chicano canon, by introducing new perspectives on American literary history, ethnicity, gender, culture, and the literary process itself, Criticism in the Borderlands is an agenda-setting collection that moves beyond previous scholarship to open up the field of Chicano literary studies and to define anew what is American literature.Contributors. Norma AlarcÓn, HÉctor CalderÓn, Angie Chabram, Barbara Harlow, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Leal, JosÉ E. LimÓn, Terese McKenna, Elizabeth J. OrdÓÑez, Genero Padilla, Alvina E. Quintana, Renato Rosaldo, JosÉ David SaldÍvar, Sonia SaldÍvar-Hull, Rosaura SÁnchez, Roberto Trujillo
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Héctor Calderón and José David Saldívar, eds.
Zusammenfassung
Presents an anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a range of texts - both old and new - that draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist.
