Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Home, Streets, Nature: Esperanza’s Itineraries in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street

Chapter 3 Harvesting a Chicana Cultural Landscape: The Manipulation in Sandra Cisneros’ “Women Hollering Creek”

Chapter 4 Performance and Linguistic Spectacle in Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Chapter 5 Thresholds of Writing: Text and Paratext in Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo or Puro Cuento

Chapter 6 Chicana Poetry: Writing the Feminine into the Landscape

Chapter 7 Reading Los Angeles costureras in the Landscape of Josefina López’s Real Women Have Curves

Chapter 8 Changing Landscapes in Chicano Countryside

Chapter 9 Memory and Trauma: Chicano Autobiographies and the Vietnam War

Chapter 10 Barrio Vistas: Urban Milieu and Cultural Visibility in Mario Suárez’s Short Story “Tuscon, Arizona: El Hoyo”

Chapter 11 “We Are All Serafina’s Children”: Racial Landscapes in Rudolfo Anaya

Chapter 12 Landscaping a Poetics of Belonging: Maps of the Imagination in Chicana/o Literature

Chapter 13 Devotion and Transnationalism: Simultaneous Guadalupan Landscapes

Chapter 14 The Space of Disease in Alejandro Morales’s The Captain of All These Men of Death

Chapter 15 Rudolfo Anaya’s Shifting Sense of Place

Chapter 16 Sitio y lengua: Chicana Third Space Feminist Theory

Chapter 17 “In Spanish, mi hermano, in Spanish.” It Is Good to Speak in Español in USA

Chapter 18 (Too) Changing Landscapes: The Translation of US Hispanic Literature into Spanish

Chapter 19 Writing on the Border: English y español también