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Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology
Contributor(s): Calderón, Héctor (Editor)
ISBN: 0822311437     ISBN-13: 9780822311430
Publisher: Duke University Press
OUR PRICE:   $27.50  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: May 1991
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Annotation: "Criticism in the Borderlands maps the significant contribution of Chicano and Chicana literary and cultural studies toward defining a culture of resistance in the United States. . . ." --Suzanne Oboler, Novel: A Forum on Fiction
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 810.986
LCCN: 90-25853
Lexile Measure: 1540
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.22 lbs) 312 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a remarkable range of texts-both old and new-draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist.
The editors have organized essays around four board themes: the situation of Chicano literary studies within American literary history and debates about the "canon"; representations of the Chicana/o subject; genre, ideology, and history; and the aesthetics of Chicano literature. The volume as a whole aims at generating new ways of understanding what counts as culture and "theory" and who counts as a theorist. A selected and annotated bibliography of contemporary Chicano literary criticism is also included.
By recovering neglected authors and texts and introducing readers to an emergent Chicano canon, by introducing new perspectives on American literary history, ethnicity, gender, culture, and the literary process itself, Criticism in the Borderlands is an agenda-setting collection that moves beyond previous scholarship to open up the field of Chicano literary studies and to define anew what is American literature.

Contributors. Norma Alarc n, H ctor Calder n, Angie Chabram, Barbara Harlow, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Leal, Jos E. Lim n, Terese McKenna, Elizabeth J. Ord ez, Genero Padilla, Alvina E. Quintana, Renato Rosaldo, Jos David Sald var, Sonia Sald var-Hull, Rosaura S nchez, Roberto Trujillo