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Title:

Bordering fires : the vintage book of contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a literature / edited and with an introduction by Cristina García.

Publisher:

Vintage Books,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xxvii, 270 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Mexican literature--20th century--Translations into English.
American literature--Mexican American authors.
American literature--20th century.
Mexican literature--20th century--Translations into English.
American literature--Mexican American authors.
American literature--20th century.

Other Authors:

García, Cristina, 1958-

Notes:

"A Vintage Books original"--T.p. verso.

Contents:

New departures. Fish of fleeting skin / Coral Bracho. Early influences. Major Aranda's hand / Alfonso Reyes ; My cousin Agueda, and In the wet shadows / Ramón López Velarde ; Excerpt from Pedro Páramo / Juan Rulfo ; L.A. nocturne : the angels / Xavier Villaurrutia -- Chicano/a voices I: How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa ; India / Richard Rodriguez ; Meditations on the South Valley : Poem IX / Jimmy Santiago Baca ; B. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca / Rudolfo Anaya -- Contemporary Mexican voices. Excerpt from The death of Artemio Cruz / Carlos Fuentes ; Introduction from Here's to you, Jesusa! / Elena Poniatowska ; The day of the dead, and I speak of the city / Octavio Paz ; Excerpt from The book of lamentations / Rosario Castellanos -- Chicano/a voices 2: Daddy with Chesterfields in a rolled up sleeve / Ana Castillo ; Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros ; Maria de Covina / Dagoberto Gilb ; Excerpt from Crossing over : a Mexican family on the migrant trail / Rubén Martínez -- New departures. Hagiography of the apostate / Ignacio Padilla ; Aunt Leonor, and Aunt Natalia / Ángeles Mastretta ; Identity hour or, What photos would you take of the endless city / Carlos Monsiváis ; Fish of fleeting skin / Coral Bracho.

Summary:

As the descendants of Mexican immigrants have settled throughout the United States, a great literature has emerged, but its correspondences with the literature of Mexico have gone largely unobserved. In this, the first anthology to combine writing from both sides of the Mexican-U.S. border, Cristina García presents a richly cross-cultural conversation. Beginning with Mexican masters such as Alfonso Reyes and Juan Rulfo, García highlights historic voices such as "the godfather of Chicano literature" Rudolfo Anaya, and Gloria Anzaldúa, who made a powerful case for language that reflects bicultural experience. From the fierce evocations of Chicano reality in Jimmy Santiago Baca's Poem IX to the breathtaking images of identity in Coral Bracho's poem "Fish of Fleeting Skin," this collection of fiction, essays, and poetry offers an new vantage point on our continent--and on the best of contemporary literature.--From publisher description.

ISBN:

9781400077182
1400077184

LCCN:

2006044721

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

41SX706 -- West Liberty High School Library (West Liberty)