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Criticism in the borderlands

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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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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

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Héctor Calderón and José David Saldívar, eds.

Summary

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.

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