Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Home, Streets, Nature: Esperanza’s Itineraries in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street....Pages 13-22
Harvesting a Chicana Cultural Landscape: The Manipulation in Sandra Cisneros’ “Women Hollering Creek”....Pages 23-32
Performance and Linguistic Spectacle in Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao....Pages 33-45
Thresholds of Writing: Text and Paratext in Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo or Puro Cuento....Pages 47-58
Chicana Poetry: Writing the Feminine into the Landscape....Pages 59-71
Reading Los Angeles costureras in the Landscape of Josefina López’s Real Women Have Curves....Pages 73-84
Changing Landscapes in Chicano Countryside....Pages 85-96
Memory and Trauma: Chicano Autobiographies and the Vietnam War....Pages 97-105
Barrio Vistas: Urban Milieu and Cultural Visibility in Mario Suárez’s Short Story “Tuscon, Arizona: El Hoyo”....Pages 107-117
“We Are All Serafina’s Children”: Racial Landscapes in Rudolfo Anaya....Pages 119-130
Landscaping a Poetics of Belonging: Maps of the Imagination in Chicana/o Literature....Pages 131-136
Devotion and Transnationalism: Simultaneous Guadalupan Landscapes....Pages 137-150
The Space of Disease in Alejandro Morales’s The Captain of All These Men of Death....Pages 151-160
Rudolfo Anaya’s Shifting Sense of Place....Pages 161-171
Sitio y lengua: Chicana Third Space Feminist Theory....Pages 173-187
“In Spanish, mi hermano, in Spanish.” It Is Good to Speak in Español in USA....Pages 189-199
(Too) Changing Landscapes: The Translation of US Hispanic Literature into Spanish....Pages 201-211
Writing on the Border: English y español también....Pages 213-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-233