Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature

Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe, North America, and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide an answer to the environmental crisis. This volume carefully presents different types of physical, ideological, symbolical, and spiritual landscapes represented in Chicano novels, short stories, drama, poetry, films, and documentaries from diverse ecocritical perspectives. Ultimately, this book bridges a gap between the fields of Chicano Studies and Ecocriticism, and draws parallels between the discrimination Chicanos face and the global attack on the environment.

Imelda Martín-Junquera is Associate Professor in the department of Modern Languages of the University of León, Spain. She is the author of Las literaturas chicana y nativo-americana ante el realismo mágico.

PART I: THE LANDSCAPE IN THE WORK OF SANDRA CISNEROS
1. Home, Streets, Nature: Esperanza's Itineraries in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street; Elisabetta Careri,
2. Harvesting a Chicana Cultural Landscape: The Manipulation in Sandra Cisneros' 'Women Hollering Creek'; Elena Avilés
3. Perfomance and Linguistic Spectacle in Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo and Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Ellen McCracken
4. Thresholds of Writing: Text and Paratext in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo or Puro Cuento; Maria Laura Spoturno
PART II: THE LANDSCAPE OF THE FEMALE BODY
5. Chicana Poetry:Writing the Feminine into the Landscape; Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe
6. Reading Los Angeles 'Costureras' in the Landscape of Josefina López's Real Women Have Curves; Yolanda Godsey
7. Changing Landscapes in Chicano Countryside; CarmenMelchor Iñiguez and María Jesús Perea Villena
PART III: LANDSCAPES OF TRAUMA
8. Memory and Trauma: Chicano Autobiographies and The Vietnam War; Berta Delgado
9. Barrio Vistas: Urban Milieu and Cultural Visibility in Mario Suárez's Short Story 'Tuscon, Arizona: El Hoyo'; Sophia Emmanouilidou
10. 'We Are All Serafina's Children:' Racial Landscapes in Rudolfo Anaya; Manuel Broncano Rodríguez
11. Landscaping a Poetics of Belonging: Maps of the imagination in Chicana/o Literature; Tey Diana Rebolledo
12. Devotion and Transnationalism: Aimultaneous Guadalupan Landscapes; María Jesús Castro Dopacio
PART IV: ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM
13. The Space of Disease in Alejandro Morales's The Captain of All These Men of Death; Roberto Ayala
14. Rudolfo Anaya's Shifting Sense of Place; Carmen Flys Junquera
PART V: LANDSCAPES OF LANGUAGE, REFLECTIONS ON CODESWITCHING AND THE BORDER
15. Sitio y lengua: Chicana Third Space Feminist Theory; Norma Elia Cantú
16. 'In Spanish, Mi Hermano, in Spanish': Is Good to Speak in Español in USA; José Antonio Gurpegui Palacios
17. (Too) Changing Landscapes: The Translation of US-Hispanic Literature into Spanish; María López Ponz
18. Writing on the Border: English y Español También; Cecilia Montes-Alcalá