This collection of critical essays addresses the complex relationship between contemporary literature theory and Chicano literature—a literature that is not part of the traditional literary cannon. The contributors, including Yolanda Julia Broyles, Héctor Calderón, Margarita Cotá-Cárdenas, Lauro Flores, Patricia de la Fuente, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Leal, José David Saldívar, Ramón Saldívar, María I. Duke dos Santos, and Rosaura Sánchez, draw upon a diverse array of theories—Marxist, feminist, post-structuralist—to make fresh, critical comments, not only on Rolando Hinojosa’s work, Klail City Death Trip series, but also on literary theory today.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Preface
- A voice´s of one´s own
- The sense of place
- Crossing the line: the construction of a poem
- Chicano literature: an american literature with a difference
- Rolando Hinojosa´s Klail city death trip: a critical introduction
- The elliptic female presence as unifying force in the novels of Rolando Hinojosa
- From heterogeneity to contradiction: Hinojosa´s novel
- History and memory in Estampas del Valle
- Hinojosa´s Klail city y sus alrededores: oral culture and print culture
- On the uses of chronicle, biography and sketch in Rolando Hinojosa´s Generaciones y semblanzas
- Korean Love Songs: a border ballad and its heroes
- Mi querido Rafa and irony: a structural study
- Narrative strategies in Rolando Hinojosa´s Rites and Witnesses
- Our southwest: an interview with Rolando Hinojosa