Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe and North and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide answers to the environmental crisis. Diverse ecocritical perspectives add new meaning to the novels,...
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Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe and North and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide answers to the environmental crisis. Diverse ecocritical perspectives add new meaning to the novels, short stories, drama, poetry, films, and documentaries analyzed in this timely and engaged collection
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Home, Streets, Nature: Esperanza's Itineraries in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street; 2 Harvesting a Chicana Cultural Landscape: The Manipulation in Sandra Cisneros' "Women Hollering Creek"; 3 Performance and Linguistic Spectacle in Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo and Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; 4 Thresholds ofWriting: Text and Paratext in Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo or Puro Cuento; 5 Chicana Poetry:Writing the Feminine into the Landscape Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe
6 Reading Los Angeles costureras in the Landscape of Josefina López's Real Women Have Curves7 Changing Landscapes in Chicano Countryside; 8 Memory and Trauma: Chicano Autobiographies and the Vietnam War; 9 Barrio Vistas: Urban Milieu and Cultural Visibility in Mario Suárez's Short Story "Tuscon, Arizona: El Hoyo"; 10 "We Are All Serafina's Children": Racial Landscapes in Rudolfo Anaya; 11 Landscaping a Poetics of Belonging: Maps of the Imagination in Chicana/o Literature; 12 Devotion and Transnationalism: Simultaneous Guadalupan Landscapes
13 The Space of Disease in Alejandro Morales's The Captain of All These Men of Death14 Rudolfo Anaya's Shifting Sense of Place; 15 Sitio y lengua: Chicana Third Space Feminist Theory; 16 "In Spanish, mi hermano, in Spanish." It Is Good to Speak; 17 (Too) Changing Landscapes: The Translation of US Hispanic Literature into Spanish; 18 Writing on the Border: English y español también; Index
