
Threshold Time
Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature
Lene M. Johannessen(Author)
Rodopi (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
204 pages
978-90-420-2332-1 (ISBN)
Description
Threshold Time provides an introductory survey of the cultural, social and political history of Mexican American and Chicano literature, as well as new in-depth analyses of a selection of works that between them span a hundred years of this particular branch of American literature. The book begins its explorations of the "passage of crisis" with Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don, continues with Americo Paredes' George Washington Gomez, Tomas Rivera's ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory, and ends with Helena Maria Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus and Benjamin Alire Saenz' Carry Me Like Water. In order to do justice to the idiosyncrasies of the individual texts and the complexities they embrace, the analyses refer to a number of other texts belonging to the tradition, and draw on a wide range of theoretical approaches. The final chapter of Threshold Time brings the various readings together in a discussion circumscribed by the negotiations of a temporality that is strongly aligned with a sense of memory peculiar to the history of the Chicano presence in the United States of America.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-2332-1 (9789042023321)
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Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Open Totality of Thresholds
I. A History of Borderland Routes
II. Literary Blossoming
III. Disillusion and Defiance in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don
IV. The Appropriate(d) Hero: Americo Paredes' George Washington Gomez
V. Exercises in Liminality: Tomas Rivera's ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
VI. The Dialogic Mind: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
VII. Memories of Landscape
1. The Meaning of Place in Helena Maria Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus
2: The Threshold - Benjamin Alire Saenz' Carry Me Like Water
VIII. The Aesthetics of Time in Chicano Literature
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: The Open Totality of Thresholds
I. A History of Borderland Routes
II. Literary Blossoming
III. Disillusion and Defiance in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don
IV. The Appropriate(d) Hero: Americo Paredes' George Washington Gomez
V. Exercises in Liminality: Tomas Rivera's ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
VI. The Dialogic Mind: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
VII. Memories of Landscape
1. The Meaning of Place in Helena Maria Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus
2: The Threshold - Benjamin Alire Saenz' Carry Me Like Water
VIII. The Aesthetics of Time in Chicano Literature
Bibliography
Index