Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-189) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Brown Buffalos and New Mestizas : consciousness and readership in Chicano/a literature -- Translingual minds, narrative encounters : reading challenges in Piri Thomas's Down these mean streets and Giannina Braschi's Yo-yo boing! -- In graphic detail : challenges of memory and serialization in the storyworlds of Gilbert Hernandez -- Paratextual play : intertextual interventions in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo and Junot Díaz's The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao -- Conclusion : the narrative possibilities of Latino/a literature.
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