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 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