Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature

ISBN-13: 9781137293602 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 233 str.

Imelda Mart N-Junquera

Opis

Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe, North America, and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide an answer to the environmental crisis. This volume carefully presents different types of physical, ideol

Recenzje

"Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature is a groundbreaking and innovative collection of essays focusing on landscape, space, and Chicano/a ecological literary expressions. The essays included in this volume are written by highly respected and well-known scholars as well as up-and-coming brilliant new voices from Europe, Latin America, and the United States. The articles are original, intelligently written in accessible language, and thought-provoking - bringing to light issues and concerns related to the environment. They make excellent use of sophisticated ecological critical theories as they pertain to Chicana and Chicano literary works." - María Herrera-Sobek, Associate Vice Chancellor and Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UCSB, USA and author of Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions

'A most timely contribution to the developing field of Chicano/a ecocriticism.' - Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez, Professor, University of California, Merced, USA

Spis treści

PART I: THE LANDSCAPE IN THE WORK OF SANDRA CISNEROS 1. Home, Streets, Nature: Esperanza's Itineraries in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street ; Elisabetta Careri, 2. Harvesting a Chicana Cultural Landscape: The Manipulation in Sandra Cisneros' 'Women Hollering Creek'; Elena Avilés 3. Perfomance and Linguistic Spectacle in Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo and Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ; Ellen McCracken 4. Thresholds of Writing: Text and Paratext in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo or Puro Cuento ; Maria Laura Spoturno PART II: THE LANDSCAPE OF THE FEMALE BODY 5. Chicana Poetry:Writing the Feminine into the Landscape; Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe 6. Reading Los Angeles 'Costureras ' in the Landscape of Josefina López's Real Women Have Curves ; Yolanda Godsey 7. Changing Landscapes in Chicano Countryside; CarmenMelchor Iñiguez and María Jesús Perea Villena PART III: LANDSCAPES OF TRAUMA 8. Memory and Trauma: Chicano Autobiographies and The Vietnam War; Berta Delgado 9. Barrio Vistas: Urban Milieu and Cultural Visibility in Mario Suárez's Short Story 'Tuscon, Arizona: El Hoyo'; Sophia Emmanouilidou 10. 'We Are All Serafina's Children:' Racial Landscapes in Rudolfo Anaya; Manuel Broncano Rodríguez 11. Landscaping a Poetics of Belonging: Maps of the imagination in Chicana/o Literature; Tey Diana Rebolledo 12. Devotion and Transnationalism: Aimultaneous Guadalupan Landscapes; María Jesús Castro Dopacio PART IV: ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM 13. The Space of Disease in Alejandro Morales's The Captain of All These Men of Death ; Roberto Ayala 14. Rudolfo Anaya's Shifting Sense of Place; Carmen Flys Junquera PART V: LANDSCAPES OF LANGUAGE, REFLECTIONS ON CODESWITCHING AND THE BORDER 15. Sitio y lengua: Chicana Third Space Feminist Theory; Norma Elia Cantú 16. 'In Spanish, Mi Hermano, in Spanish': Is Good to Speak in Español in USA; José Antonio Gurpegui Palacios 17. (Too) Changing Landscapes : The Translation of US-Hispanic Literature into Spanish; María López Ponz 18. Writing on the Border: English y Español También; Cecilia Montes-Alcalá

O autorze

Elena Avilés, University of New Mexico, USA Roberto Ayala, University of California, Irvine, USA Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe, Michel de Montaigne University, France Manuel Broncano Rodríguez, Texas A&M International University, USA Norma Cantú, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Elisabetta Careri, English and Spanish teacher and translator María Jesús Castro Dopacio, independent scholar Berta Delgado Melgosa, independent scholar Sophia Emmanouilidou, Greek Ministry of Education, Greece Carmen Flys Junquera, University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain Yolanda Godsey, University of Houston, USA Jose Antonio Gurpegui Palacios, University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain María López Ponz, University of Salamanca, Spain Ellen McCracken, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Carmen Melchor Íñiguez, independent scholar Cecilia Montes-Alcalá, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Tey Diana Rebolledo; University of New Mexico, USA María Laura Spoturno, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina