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Narratives of Greater Mexico : essays on Chicano literary history, genre, and borders /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Calderón, Héctor
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:CMAS history, culture, & society series.
Subjects:
American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Mexican influences.
Literary form > History > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > Intellectual life.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Redefining the borderlands: from the Spanish southwest to greater Mexico, from Charles F. Lummis to Américo paredes
  • Writing the dreams of la Nueva México: Rudolfo A. Anaya's Bless me, ultima and the southwest literary tradition
  • The emergence of the Chicano novel: Tomás Rivera's ". . . y no se lo tragó la tierra" and the community of readers
  • "A recorder of events with a sour stomach": Oscar Zeta Acosta and The autobiography of a brown buffalo
  • "Making familia from scratch": Cherríe L. Moraga's Self-portraits
  • "Mexicanos al grito de guerra": Rolando Hinojosa's Cronicón del condado de Belken
  • "Como México no hay dos": Sandra Cisneros's feminist border stories.