Narratives of Greater Mexico: Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and Borders

by Héctor Calderón

Book Overview

Once relegated to the borders of literature-neither Mexican nor truly American-Chicana/o writers have always been in the vanguard of change, articulating the multicultural ethnicities, shifting identities, border realities, and even postmodern anxieties and hostilities that already characterize the twenty-first century. Indeed, it is Chicana/o writers' very in-between-ness that makes them authentic spokespersons for an America that is becoming...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292705824
• ISBN13: 9780292705821
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"