Bordering fires
Subtitle: the vintage book of contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a literature
By: edited and with an introduction by Cristina García
Contributors: García, Cristina, 1958-
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781400077182
Subjects: Mexican literature -- 20th century -- Translations into English; American literature -- Mexican American authors; American literature -- 20th century
Genres: Translations into English
Notes: "A Vintage Books original"--T.p. verso
Table of contents: title: Prelude: Exerpt from The use of thought / Samuel Ramos.; title: Early influences:  Major Aranda's hand / Alfonso Reyes; title: My cousin Agueda and In the wet shadows / Ramón López Velarde; title: Excerpt from Pedro Páramo / Juan Rulfo; title: L.A. nocturne: the angels / Xavier Villaurrutia.; title: Chicano/a voices I:  How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa; title: India / Richard Rodriguez; title: Mediatations on the South Valley: Poem IX / Jimmy Santiago Baca; title: B. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca / Rudolfo Anaya .; title: Contemporary Mexican voices: Excerpt from The death of Artemio Cruz / Carlos Fuentes; title: Introduction from Here's to you, Jesusa! / Elena Poniatowska; title: The day of the dead and I speak of the city / Octavio Paz; title: Excerpt from The book of lamentations /Rosario Castellanos.; title: Chicano/a voices 2:  Daddy with Chesterfields in a rolled up sleeve / Ana Castillo; title: Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros; title: Maria de Covina / Dagoberto Gilb; title: Excerpt from Crossing over: a Mexican family on the migrant trail / Rubén Martínez; title: Hagiography of the Apostate / Igncaio Padilla; title: Aunt Leonor and Aunt Natalia / Ángeles Mastretta; title: Identity hour or, What photos would you take of the endless city / Carlos Monsiváis; title: Fish of fleeting skin / Coral Bracho