International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies: This World is My Place

ISBN-13: 9781138097841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str.

Catherine Leen; Niamh Thornton

Opis

This volume examines how the field of Chicana/o studies has developed to become an area of interest to scholars far beyond the United States and Spain. 

Spis treści

Introduction.  Part I: Critical Paradigms: Continuities and Transitions  1. From Chapbooks to Chica Lit: U.S. Latina Writers and the New Literary Identity Ellen McCracken  2. Healing Family History/ (Her) Story: Writing and Gardening in Pat Mora’s House of Houses Imelda Martín-Junquera  3. Transculturation, Memory, and History: Mary Helen Ponce’s Hoyt Street—An Autobiography Mario T. García.  Part II: From the Regional to the Global  4. My Super Sweet Fifteen: The Internationalisation of Quinceañeras in Literature and Film Niamh Thornton  5. American Studies in Russia: Learning Chicana/o Literature in Chita (Siberia) Tatiana Voronchenko  6. Moving Subjects: The Politics of Death in Narratives of the Juárez Murders Nuala Finnegan  7. Origins and Evolution of Homies as Hip Rasquache Cultural Artifacts: Taking the Homies Out of the Barrio or the Barrio Out of the Homies Francisco A. Lomelí.  Part III: Visual Culture: Producing Resistance  8. The Construction of Justice in Chicana/o Art: From Recognition to Distribution and Counterhegemony Cristina Elgue-Martini  9. Barbed Wire Iconography and Aesthetic Activism: The Borderlands, Mexican Immigration and Chicana/o Art María Herrera-Sobek  10. Virgen Transatlantic: Religious Iconography in Irish and Chicana/o Art Catherine Leen.  Conclusion.  Guide to Further Reading.

O autorze

Catherine Leen is a Lecturer in the Department of Spanish at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, specialising in Mexican and Chicana/o literature and cinema and Argentine and Paraguayan cultures. Her recent publications include works on Sandra Cisneros and Guillermo Gómez-Peña.

Niamh Thornton is a Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies and Film at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. She is a Latin Americanist with a particular focus on Mexican film and literature and a key interest in the representations of conflict. She has also written about queer representations and cyberculture.