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Author:   Catherine Leen (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) ,  Niamh Thornton (University of Liverpool, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   56
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9780415833356

ISBN 10:   0415833353
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   06 November 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Part I: Critical Paradigms: Continuities and Transitions 1. From Chapbooks to Chica Lit: U.S. Latina Writers and the New Literary Identity Ellen McCracken 2. Healing Family History/ (Her) Story: Writing and Gardening in Pat Mora’s House of Houses Imelda Martín-Junquera 3. Transculturation, Memory, and History: Mary Helen Ponce’s Hoyt Street—An Autobiography Mario T. García. Part II: From the Regional to the Global 4. My Super Sweet Fifteen: The Internationalisation of Quinceañeras in Literature and Film Niamh Thornton 5. American Studies in Russia: Learning Chicana/o Literature in Chita (Siberia) Tatiana Voronchenko 6. Moving Subjects: The Politics of Death in Narratives of the Juárez Murders Nuala Finnegan 7. Origins and Evolution of Homies as Hip Rasquache Cultural Artifacts: Taking the Homies Out of the Barrio or the Barrio Out of the Homies Francisco A. Lomelí. Part III: Visual Culture: Producing Resistance 8. The Construction of Justice in Chicana/o Art: From Recognition to Distribution and Counterhegemony Cristina Elgue-Martini 9. Barbed Wire Iconography and Aesthetic Activism: The Borderlands, Mexican Immigration and Chicana/o Art María Herrera-Sobek 10. Virgen Transatlantic: Religious Iconography in Irish and Chicana/o Art Catherine Leen. Conclusion. Guide to Further Reading.

Reviews

This exciting and timely anthology provides great insight into the growing international appeal of Chicana/o Studies, a field previously believed to be of merely regional and local interest within the United States. --Guisela Latorre, The Ohio State University, USA Leen and Thornton's volume represents a major new contribution to Chicano/a Studies in English. While offering a clear and focused investigation of Chicano identities and culture, it is sensitive to the contingent, evolving and multifaceted nature of those identities and their cultural manifestations. Unusually international in approach and with a wide range of excellent contributors, the book covers areas as diverse as literature, art, film, institutional programmes, everyday life practices and wider matters of cultural identity and identification. It is essential reading for all those interested in the field. --Philip Swanson, The University of Sheffield, UK

Author Information

Catherine Leen is a Lecturer in the Department of Spanish at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, specialising in Mexican and Chicana/o literature and cinema and Argentine and Paraguayan cultures. Her recent publications include works on Sandra Cisneros and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Niamh Thornton is a Reader in Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is a Latin Americanist with a particular focus on Mexican film and literature and a key interest in the representations of conflict. She has also written about queer representations and cyberculture.

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