Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-45125-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 233 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3212 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martín-Junquera, I.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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