pt. V Mapping and Performing Indigenous Mexicana Identities: Violeta Luna and the Woman of Maize / Teaching Cartucho and Nellie Campobello's Goal of Restoring Pancho Villa to Mexican History / William R. Stark. Sor Juana's Legacy and Rosario Castellanos's Feminist Essays / Oswaldo Estrada -- Testimony and Chronicle in Elena Poniatowska's Las mily una ... La herida de Paulina / Pedro Garcia-Caro -- Teaching Contemporary Mexico to General Education Students through Elena Poniatowska's Stories / Mark J. Mascia -- Illness and Disability: From Narrative Prosthesis to Life Experience in Works by Maria Luisa Puga / Beth E. Jorgensen -- Small Acts of Resistance: The New Woman Confronts Social Conventions in the Narratives of Silvia Molina / Liliana Pedroza -- Symbols, Codes, and Points of Focus in Silvia Molina's "Mentira piadosa" / Nathanial Gardner -- Narrative Spaces, Gender, and Sephardic Identity in Rosa Nissan's Novia que te vea / Manuel F. Medina -- The Reader and the Text in Carmen Boullosa's Fragmented Narratives / Jessica Burke -- Navigating Unanswerable Questions in Carmen Boullosa's "So Disappear" / Rabi'a Hakima -- pt. II Chicana Writers and Their Precursors -- Jovita Gonzalez and "Her People's History": Teaching Borderlands Culture through Close Reading and Archival Practice / Marcel Brousseau -- Pre-Civil-Rights-Era Chicana Writing and the Impact of the Mexican Revolution: Josefina Niggli's Step Down, Elder Brother / Alberto Varon -- Crossing the (Genre) Border: Sandra Cisneros's Genre Innovation in The House on Mango Street / Shelley Garcia -- Navigating Narrative Ambiguity in Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters / Ashley Hope Perez -- The Holy and the Ordinary: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language in Denise Chavez's Face of an Angel / Mary Jane Hurst -- Deconstructing Mexican Masculinity in Denise Chavez's Loving Pedro Infante / Laura P. Alonso-Gallo -- Norma Elia Cantu's Canicula and Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands / La frontera in a Multiethnic Literature Classroom / Margaret Cantu-Sanchez -- The Personal and the Historical in Lucha Corpi's Detective Novels / Carol E. Pearson -- Feminist Consciousness and Community Activism in Novels by Ana Castillo and Demetria Martinez / Leigh C. Johnson -- Domestication and Resistance in the Short Fiction of Alma Luz Villanueva and Helena Maria Viramontes / Sheila Marie Contreras -- Lesson Plans for Four Stories in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" and Other Stories / Peter Schmidt -- pt. III Comparative Notions -- Bridging the Border: Guiding a Comparative Study of Nellie Campobello's Cartucho and Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street / Anne M. McGee -- Borderlands, Race, and Gender in Novels by Helena Maria Viramontes and Rosario Castellanos / David S. Dalton -- Brianda Domecq's Novel La Santa de Cabora and a Southwest Chautauqua about the Curandera Teresa Urrea: A Personal Narrative / Elena Diaz Bjorkquist -- Weight, Writing, and Privilege: Carmen Boullosa, Elena Poniatowska, and Rosario Castellanos / Emily Hind -- pt. IV Visual and Digital Strategies -- Life Writing, Biopics, Gender, and Media: Elena Poniatowska's Tinisima and Leonora / Luis H. Pena -- Visual Teaching Strategies and La Malinche as a Cultural Icon / Betsy A. Sandlin -- Teaching Queer Chicana Writers through Historical Research, Blogs, and Podcasts / Carolina E. Alonso -- Developing Cross-Cultural Awareness and Digital Literacy through an Active Learning Project / Ron Thomas -- pt. V Drama and Performance -- Reading, Witnessing, and Staging Virginia Grise and Irma Mayorga's The Panza Monologues / Adrianna M. Santos -- Evolution of a Transnational Imaginary in the Drama of Josefina Niggli, Josefina Lopez, and Yareli Arizmendi / Norma A. Valenzuela -- Confronting Gender and Sexual Identity in Cherrie Moraga's Shadow of a Man / Susan C. Mendez -- Mapping and Performing Indigenous Mexicana Identities: Violeta Luna and the Woman of Maize / William R. Stark.
Summary:
"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching Mexicana and Chicana writers of the late twentieth century in undergraduate classes. Topics include precursors and influences, testimony and chronicle, borderlands culture, gender and identity, cross-cultural connections, and indigeneity. Includes syllabus suggestions and information on editions, reference works, biographies, film adaptations, and online resources"-- Provided by publisher.
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