Alejandro Morales : an errant maverick faces the literary canon and history / Marc Garcia-Martinez and Francisco A. Lomeli -- Submersion, suffocation, and entombment of the Mexican and immigrant body in River of angels : probing figurations of violence and isolation / Marc Garcia-Martinez -- The analogous correspondence of an extreme poetics between Stanley Kubrick's A clockwork orange and Alejandro Morales' Barrio on the edge / Francisco A. Lomeli -- Alejandro Morales' The captain of all these men of death and Philip Roth's Nemesis : parallels and contrasts / Stephen Miller -- Tropes of ecothinking and the spatial imaginary in Alejandro Morales' River of angels / Sophia Emmanouilidou -- History, spatial justice, and the esperpento in Alejandro Morales' Pequena nacion / Jesus Rosales -- Heterotopia and the emergence of the modern ilusa in Waiting to happen / Margarita Lopez Lopez -- city history and space politics : Los Angeles in Morales' River of angels / Baojie Li -- Pequena nacion : big (feminist) revolution / Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo -- Bodies in motion in The place of the white heron, volume two of the Heterotopian trilogy : a glance through the panopticon / Adam Spires -- Race, space, and magical realism in The brick people and River of angels / Adina Ciugureanu -- Mestizaje, cultural identity, and environmental degradation in Alejandro Morales' The rag doll plagues / Manuel M. Martin Rodriguez -- Translation as rewriting and resituating : the two English versions of Caras viejas y vino nuevo by Alejandro Morales / Elena Errico -- History and fiction in Alejandro Morales' narratives / Luis Leal -- Epidemics, epistemophilia, and racism : ecological literary criticism and The rag doll plagues / Maria Herrera-Sobek -- A dialogue with the writer Alejandro Morales / Francisco Lomeli, Marc Garcia-Martinez, and Daniel Olivas.
Summary:
"Alejandro Morales is a pioneer of Chicana and Chicano literature and the author of groundbreaking works including The Brick People, The Rag Doll Plagues, and River of Angels. His work, often experimental, was one of the first to depict harsh urban realities in the barrios-a break from much of the Chicana and Chicano fiction that had been published previously. Morales' relentless work has grown over the decades into a veritable menagerie of cultural testimonies, fantastic counter-histories, magical realism, challenging meta-narratives, and flesh-and-blood aesthetic innovation. The fourteen essays included in this compendium examine Morales' novels and short stories. The editors also include a critical introduction; an interview between Morales, the editors, and fellow author Daniel Olivas; and a new comprehensive bibliography of Morales' writings and works about him-books, articles, book reviews, online resources, and dissertations. A Critical Collection on Alejandro Morales: Forging an Alternative Chicano Fiction is a must-read for understanding and appreciating Morales' work in particular and Chicana and Chicano literature in general"-- Provided by publisher.
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