Based on papers from a symposium held in California State University, Fresno, 2014. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Genre matters: tracing metaphors of miscegenation in genre history, Derrida's "The law of genre" and Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La frontera / Shelley Garcia -- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Cuban characters: Uncle Tom's cabin and Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda's Sab / Judie Newman -- Pedro Medina and Suburbano come to the fore: Miami as a cultural stage and source of creativity / Naida Saavedra -- The imagined world of Latin/o America in Sam no es mi tio / Amrita Das -- The twenty-first century politics of Latinidad: decolonizing consciousness, transnational solidarity, and global activism in Demetria Martinez's Mother tongue / Georgina Guzman -- "'The Waltons, Chicana style': queer familia and reclaimed sisterhood in Terri de la Pena's Faults" / Cristina Herrera -- Crossing borders through prostitution: Esperanza's box of saints by Maria Amparo Escandon and Across a hundred mountains by Reyna Grande / Carolyn Gonzalez -- The (im)materiality of race: the representation and circulation of brownness in the liberal media and Domingo Martinez's The boy kings of Texas / Magda Garcia -- Capirotada: a renewed Chicana spirituality through a Chicana literary lens / Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs -- Creating a more compassionate narrative: undoing desconocimiento through embodied intimacy in Helena Maria Viramontes' Under the feet of Jesus and Luis Alberto Urrea's The devil's highway / Christina Garcia Lopez -- Entering the mainstream: Chicana lesbian subjectivity in contemporary drama and performance / Trevor Boffone -- Slow lightning: image, time, and an erotics of reading / Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson -- From lost woman to third space mestiza maternal subject: La Llorona as a metaphor of transformation / Larissa M. Mercado-Lopez -- Extremely brown and incredibly ignored / Alex Espinoza -- Latino literature for children and the lack of diversity / Gabriela Baeza Ventura.
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