The Once and Future Chicano – World Literatures Between Intra-History and Utopian Vision: An Interview with Alejandro Morales

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword from the Editors V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Special Focus: Latina/o Literature at the Crossroads: The Trans-American and the Trans-Atlantic in Critical Dialogue
5. Introduction: Latina/o Literature at the Crossroads: The Trans-American and the Trans-Atlantic in Critical Dialogue 3
6. I. Trans-American Subjectivities: The Critical Aesthetics of Migration and Trans-Migration
7. A Central American Wound: Remapping the U.S. Borderlands in Oscar Martinez’s The Beast 13
8. The Undocumented Subjects of el Hueco: Theorizing a Colombian Metaphor for Migration 31
9. Toxicity and the Politics of Narration: Imagining Social and Environmental Justice in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper 55
10. II. Intersticies: Translation, Transculturation, and the Trans-Atlantic
11. Latina/o Literature Goes German 79
12. Rerouting the Rise: Upward Mobility in Junot Díaz’s Fiction 103
13. “The Emotional Residue of an Unnatural Boundary”: Brownsville and the Borders of Mental Health 123
14. Between Molds and Models: Female Identities in Almudena Grandes’s Models of Women and Roberta Fernández’s Intaglio 143
15. III. Writing the Borderlands of Culture: Interviews with Latina/o Authors
16. The Once and Future Chicano – World Literatures Between Intra-History and Utopian Vision: An Interview with Alejandro Morales 171
17. The “I” Before the Border: An Interview with Reyna Grande 185
18. “Where I Find Poetry and Tension”: An Interview with Daniel José Older 199
19. General Section
20. Typeface Teutonicus: The Socio-Semiotics of German Typography Before 1919 217
21. Parenthetical Embodiment and the Posthuman Body in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse 243
22. Monument Narratives in Recent Anglophone Fiction 259
23. Book Reviews 281
24. Index 303