| Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology Contributor(s): Calderón, Héctor (Editor), Saldívar, José David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0822311372 ISBN-13: 9780822311379 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $102.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 810.986 |
| LCCN: 90025853 |
| Lexile Measure: 1540 |
| Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.4" W x 9.4" (1.60 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a remarkable range of texts--both old and new--draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist. The editors have organized essays around four board themes: the situation of Chicano literary studies within American literary history and debates about the "canon"; representations of the Chicana/o subject; genre, ideology, and history; and the aesthetics of Chicano literature. The volume as a whole aims at generating new ways of understanding what counts as culture and "theory" and who counts as a theorist. A selected and annotated bibliography of contemporary Chicano literary criticism is also included. By recovering neglected authors and texts and introducing readers to an emergent Chicano canon, by introducing new perspectives on American literary history, ethnicity, gender, culture, and the literary process itself, Criticism in the Borderlands is an agenda-setting collection that moves beyond previous scholarship to open up the field of Chicano literary studies and to define anew what is American literature. Contributors. Norma Alarc n, H ctor Calder n, Angie Chabram, Barbara Harlow, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Leal, Jos E. Lim n, Terese McKenna, Elizabeth J. Ord ez, Genero Padilla, Alvina E. Quintana, Renato Rosaldo, Jos David Sald var, Sonia Sald var-Hull, Rosaura S nchez, Roberto Trujillo |