Literature and ethnicity in the cultural borderlands
By: edited by Jesús Benito, Ana María Manzanas.
Contributors: Benito Sánchez, Jesús.; Manzanas Calvo, Ana Ma.
Series: Rodopi perspectives on modern literature -- 28
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9789042015098
Subjects: American literature -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History and criticism; Mexican American authors -- Mexican-American Border Region; Ethnicity in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200).
Table of contents: title: Border(lands) and border writing : introductory essay / Jesús Benito and Ana María Manzanas; title: Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig : an idiosyncratic attempt to locate the color line in terms of class, gender and geography / Aitor Ibarrola; title: Reality and discourse in Toni Morrison's trilogy : testing the limits / Justine Tally; title: The border paradigm in Cormac McCarthy's The crossing / Isabel Soto; title: An interpretive assessment of Chicano literature and criticism / Francisco Lomeli; title: "The Cariboo Café" as a border text : the holographic model / Begoña Simal; title: Shifting borders and intersecting territories : Rudolfo Anaya / Carmen Flys; title: Transcultural space in Luis Alberto Urrea's In search of snow / Markus Heide; title: Language and male identity construction in the cultural borderlands : Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of memory / Eduardo de Gregorio; title: M/other tongues in Borderlands in contemporary literature in English / M.S. Suárez Lafuente; title: The borders of the self : identity and community in Louise Erdrich's Love medicine and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow / Maria del Mar Gallego; title: A two-headed freak and a bad wife search for home : border crossing in Nisei daughter and The Mixquaiahuala letters / Janet Cooper; title: Insiders/outsiders : finding one's self in the cultural borderlands / Chrissi Harris.