Narrative, Ideology, and the Reconstruction of American Literary History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword: Redefining American Literature, Rolando Hinojosa xi
5. Editors' Introduction: Criticism in the Borderlands 1
6. Part I. Institutional Studies and the Literary Canon
7. Narrative, Ideology, and the Reconstruction of American Literary History 11
8. The Rewriting of American Literary History 21
9. The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism 28
10. Part II. Representations of the Chicana/o Subject: Race, Class, and Gender
11. Imprisoned Narrative? Or Lies, Secrets, and Silence in New Mexico Women's Autobiography 43
12. Body, Spirit, and the Text: Alma Villanueva's Life Span 61
13. Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters: The Novelist as Ethnographer 72
14. Fables of the Fallen Guy 84
15. Part III. Genre, Ideology, and History
16. The Novel and the Community of Readers: Rereading Tomas Rivera's Yno se 10 trago la tierra 97
17. Ideological Discourses in Arturo Islas's The Rain God 114
18. Conceptualizing Chicano Critical Discourse 127
19. Sites of Struggle: Immigration, Deportation, Prison, and Exile 149
20. Part IV. Aesthetics of the Border
21. Chicano Border Narratives as Cultural Critique 167
22. On Chicano Poetry and the Political Age: Corridos as Social Drama 181
23. Feminism on the Border: From Gender Politics to Geopolitics 203
24. Dancing with the Devil: Society, Gender, and the Political Unconscious in Mexican-American South Texas 221
25. Works Cited 237
26. Selected and Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Chicano Literary Criticism 260
27. Index 275
28. Contributors 287