Life in search of readers
Subtitle: reading (in) Chicano/a literature
By: Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism.; American literature -- Mexican influences.; Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life.; Authors and readers -- United States.; Books and reading -- United States.; Books and reading in literature.; Mexican Americans in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-221) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Life in search of readers : the Quinto Sol generation and the creation of a Chicano/a readership; title: Characters as readers and as writers : a metaliterary reflection on the reading process; title: (En)gendering the reader : Chicana literature and its implied audience; title: Querido reader : linguistic and marketing strategies for addressing a multicultural readership; title: Reading (in) the past : textual recovery and the history of (reading) Chicano/a literature.