Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Imelda Martín-Junquera

   Pages 1-11

3. Home, Streets, Nature: Esperanza’s Itineraries in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street

   • Elisabetta Careri

   Pages 13-22

4. Harvesting a Chicana Cultural Landscape: The Manipulation in Sandra Cisneros’ “Women Hollering Creek”

   • Elena Avilés

   Pages 23-32

5. Performance and Linguistic Spectacle in Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

   • Ellen McCracken

   Pages 33-45

6. Thresholds of Writing: Text and Paratext in Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo or Puro Cuento

   • María Laura Spoturno

   Pages 47-58

7. Chicana Poetry: Writing the Feminine into the Landscape

   • Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe

   Pages 59-71

8. Reading Los Angeles costureras in the Landscape of Josefina López’s Real Women Have Curves

   • Yolanda Godsey

   Pages 73-84

9. Changing Landscapes in Chicano Countryside

   • Carmen Melchor Íñiguez

   Pages 85-96

10. Memory and Trauma: Chicano Autobiographies and the Vietnam War

    • Berta Delgado Melgosa

    Pages 97-105

11. Barrio Vistas: Urban Milieu and Cultural Visibility in Mario Suárez’s Short Story “Tuscon, Arizona: El Hoyo”

    • Sophia Emmanouilidou

    Pages 107-117

12. “We Are All Serafina’s Children”: Racial Landscapes in Rudolfo Anaya

    • Manuel Broncano

    Pages 119-130

13. Landscaping a Poetics of Belonging: Maps of the Imagination in Chicana/o Literature

    • Tey Diana Rebolledo

    Pages 131-136

14. Devotion and Transnationalism: Simultaneous Guadalupan Landscapes

    • María Jesús Castro Dopacio

    Pages 137-150

15. The Space of Disease in Alejandro Morales’s The Captain of All These Men of Death

    • Roberto Ayala

    Pages 151-160

16. Rudolfo Anaya’s Shifting Sense of Place

    • Carmen Flys Junquera

    Pages 161-171

17. Sitio y lengua: Chicana Third Space Feminist Theory

    • Norma Elia Cantú

    Pages 173-187

18. “In Spanish, mi hermano, in Spanish.” It Is Good to Speak in Español in USA

    • Jose Antonio Gurpegui

    Pages 189-199

19. (Too) Changing Landscapes: The Translation of US Hispanic Literature into Spanish

    • María López Ponz

    Pages 201-211

20. Writing on the Border: English y español también

    • Cecilia Montes-Alcalá

    Pages 213-230

Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe and North and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide answers to the environmental crisis. Diverse ecocritical perspectives add new meaning to the novels, short stories, drama, poetry, films, and documentaries analyzed in this timely and engaged collection.

• America
• crisis
• drama
• environment
• Imagination
• novel
• Paratext
• poetry
• space

"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

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

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