Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature

1. Introduction
Imelda Martín-Junquera

2. Home, Streets, Nature: Esperanza’s Itineraries in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street
Elisabetta Careri

3. Harvesting a Chicana Cultural Landscape: The Manipulation in Sandra Cisneros’ “Women Hollering Creek”
Elena Avilés

4. Performance and Linguistic Spectacle in Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Ellen McCracken

5. Thresholds of Writing: Text and Paratext in Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo or Puro Cuento
María Laura Spoturno

6. Chicana Poetry: Writing the Feminine into the Landscape
Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe

7. Reading Los Angeles costureras in the Landscape of Josefina López’s Real Women Have Curves
Yolanda Godsey

8. Changing Landscapes in Chicano Countryside
Carmen Melchor Íñiguez

9. Memory and Trauma: Chicano Autobiographies and the Vietnam War
Berta Delgado Melgosa

10. Barrio Vistas: Urban Milieu and Cultural Visibility in Mario Suárez’s Short Story “Tuscon, Arizona: El Hoyo”
Sophia Emmanouilidou

11. “We Are All Serafina’s Children”: Racial Landscapes in Rudolfo Anaya
Manuel Broncano

12. Landscaping a Poetics of Belonging: Maps of the Imagination in Chicana/o Literature
Tey Diana Rebolledo

13. Devotion and Transnationalism: Simultaneous Guadalupan Landscapes
María Jesús Castro Dopacio

14. The Space of Disease in Alejandro Morales’s The Captain of All These Men of Death
Roberto Ayala

15. Rudolfo Anaya’s Shifting Sense of Place
Carmen Flys Junquera

16. Sitio y lengua: Chicana Third Space Feminist Theory
Norma Elia Cantú

17. “In Spanish, mi hermano, in Spanish.” It Is Good to Speak in Español in USA
Jose Antonio Gurpegui

18. (Too) Changing Landscapes: The Translation of US Hispanic Literature into Spanish
María López Ponz

19. Writing on the Border: English y español también
Cecilia Montes-Alcalá

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Latin American Culture, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Literature, general, Postcolonial/World Literature, North American Literature