Criticism in the Borderlands

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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 / Ramon Saldivar 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 Alarcon 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. Ordonez 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 Tomas Rivera's Y no se le trago la tierra / Hector Calderon 97 Ideological Discourses in Arturo Islas's The Rain God / Rosaura Sanchez 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 / Jose David Saldivar 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 Saldivar-Hull 203 Dancing with the Devil: Society, Gender, and the Political Unconcious in Mexican-American South Texas / Jose E. Limon 221 Works Cited 237 Selected and Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Chicano Literary Criticism 260 Index 275 Contributors 287