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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Redefining American Literature, Rolando Hinojosa -- Editors' Introduction: Criticism in the Borderlands -- Part I. Institutional Studies and the Literary Canon -- Narrative, Ideology, and the Reconstruction of American Literary History -- The Rewriting of American Literary History -- The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism -- Part II. Representations of the Chicana/o Subject: Race, Class, and Gender -- Imprisoned Narrative? Or Lies, Secrets, and Silence in New Mexico Women's Autobiography -- Body, Spirit, and the Text: Alma Villanueva's Life Span -- Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters: The Novelist as Ethnographer -- Fables of the Fallen Guy -- Part III. Genre, Ideology, and History -- The Novel and the Community of Readers: Rereading Tomas Rivera's Yno se 10 trago la tierra -- Ideological Discourses in Arturo Islas's The Rain God -- Conceptualizing Chicano Critical Discourse -- Sites of Struggle: Immigration, Deportation, Prison, and Exile -- Part IV. Aesthetics of the Border -- Chicano Border Narratives as Cultural Critique -- On Chicano Poetry and the Political Age: Corridos as Social Drama -- Feminism on the Border: From Gender Politics to Geopolitics -- Dancing with the Devil: Society, Gender, and the Political Unconscious in Mexican-American South Texas -- Works Cited -- Selected and Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Chicano Literary Criticism -- Index -- Contributors 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 Alarcón, Héctor Calderón, Angie Chabram, Barbara Harlow, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Leal, José E. Limón, Terese McKenna, Elizabeth J. Ordóñez, Genero Padilla, Alvina E. Quintana, Renato Rosaldo, José David Saldívar, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Rosaura Sánchez, Roberto Trujillo
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