• Acknowledgments ixForeword: Redefining American Literature / Roland Hinojosa xiEditors' Introduction: Criticism in the Borderlands 1Part I. Institutional Studies and the Literary Canon Narrative, Ideology, and the Reconstruction of American Literary History / RamÓn SaldÍvar 11The Rewriting of American Literary History / Luis Leal 21The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism / Norma AlarcÓn 28Part II. Representations of the Chicana/o Subject: Race, Class, and Gender Imprisoned Narrative? Or Lies, Secrets, and Silence in New Mexico Women's Autobiography / Genaro Padilla 43Body, Spirit, and the Text: Alma Villanueva's Life Span / Elizabeth J. OrdÓÑez 61Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters: The Novelist as Ethnographer / Alvina E. Quintana 72Fables of the Fallen Guy / Renato Rosaldo 84Part III. Genre, Ideology, and History The Novel and the Community of Readers: Rereading TomÁs Rivera's Y no se le tragÓ la tierra / HÉctor CalderÓn 97Ideological Discourses in Arturo Islas's The Rain God / Rosaura SÁnchez 114Conceptualizing Chicano Critical Discourse / Angie Chabram 127Sites of Struggle: Immigration, Deportation, Prison, and Exile / Barbara Harlow 149Part IV. Aesthetics of the Border Chicano Border Narratives as Cultural Critique / JosÉ David SaldÍvar 167On Chicano Poetry and the Political Age: Corridos as Social Drama / Teresa McKenna 188Feminism on the Border / From Gender Politics to Geopolitics / Sonia SaldÍvar-Hull 203Dancing with the Devil: Society, Gender, and the Political Unconcious in Mexican-American South Texas / JosÉ E. LimÓn 221Works Cited 237Selected and Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Chicano Literary Criticism 260Index 275Contributors 287

'Criticism in the Borderlands maps the significant contribution of Chicano and Chicana literary and cultural studies toward defining a culture of resistance in the United States...' --Suzanne Oboler, Novel: A Forum on Fiction

• Acknowledgments ixForeword: Redefining American Literature / Roland Hinojosa xiEditors' Introduction: Criticism in the Borderlands 1Part I. Institutional Studies and the Literary Canon Narrative, Ideology, and the Reconstruction of American Literary History / RamÓn SaldÍvar 11The Rewriting of American Literary History / Luis Leal 21The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism / Norma AlarcÓn 28Part II. Representations of the Chicana/o Subject: Race, Class, and Gender Imprisoned Narrative? Or Lies, Secrets, and Silence in New Mexico Women's Autobiography / Genaro Padilla 43Body, Spirit, and the Text: Alma Villanueva's Life Span / Elizabeth J. OrdÓÑez 61Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters: The Novelist as Ethnographer / Alvina E. Quintana 72Fables of the Fallen Guy / Renato Rosaldo 84Part III. Genre, Ideology, and History The Novel and the Community of Readers: Rereading TomÁs Rivera's Y no se le tragÓ la tierra / HÉctor CalderÓn 97Ideological Discourses in Arturo Islas's The Rain God / Rosaura SÁnchez 114Conceptualizing Chicano Critical Discourse / Angie Chabram 127Sites of Struggle: Immigration, Deportation, Prison, and Exile / Barbara Harlow 149Part IV. Aesthetics of the Border Chicano Border Narratives as Cultural Critique / JosÉ David SaldÍvar 167On Chicano Poetry and the Political Age: Corridos as Social Drama / Teresa McKenna 188Feminism on the Border / From Gender Politics to Geopolitics / Sonia SaldÍvar-Hull 203Dancing with the Devil: Society, Gender, and the Political Unconcious in Mexican-American South Texas / JosÉ E. LimÓn 221Works Cited 237Selected and Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Chicano Literary Criticism 260Index 275Contributors 287

'Criticism in the Borderlands maps the significant contribution of Chicano and Chicana literary and cultural studies toward defining a culture of resistance in the United States...' --Suzanne Oboler, Novel: A Forum on Fiction

• Acknowledgments ixForeword: Redefining American Literature / Roland Hinojosa xiEditors' Introduction: Criticism in the Borderlands 1Part I. Institutional Studies and the Literary Canon Narrative, Ideology, and the Reconstruction of American Literary History / RamÓn SaldÍvar 11The Rewriting of American Literary History / Luis Leal 21The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism / Norma AlarcÓn 28Part II. Representations of the Chicana/o Subject: Race, Class, and Gender Imprisoned Narrative? Or Lies, Secrets, and Silence in New Mexico Women's Autobiography / Genaro Padilla 43Body, Spirit, and the Text: Alma Villanueva's Life Span / Elizabeth J. OrdÓÑez 61Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters: The Novelist as Ethnographer / Alvina E. Quintana 72Fables of the Fallen Guy / Renato Rosaldo 84Part III. Genre, Ideology, and History The Novel and the Community of Readers: Rereading TomÁs Rivera's Y no se le tragÓ la tierra / HÉctor CalderÓn 97Ideological Discourses in Arturo Islas's The Rain God / Rosaura SÁnchez 114Conceptualizing Chicano Critical Discourse / Angie Chabram 127Sites of Struggle: Immigration, Deportation, Prison, and Exile / Barbara Harlow 149Part IV. Aesthetics of the Border Chicano Border Narratives as Cultural Critique / JosÉ David SaldÍvar 167On Chicano Poetry and the Political Age: Corridos as Social Drama / Teresa McKenna 188Feminism on the Border / From Gender Politics to Geopolitics / Sonia SaldÍvar-Hull 203Dancing with the Devil: Society, Gender, and the Political Unconcious in Mexican-American South Texas / JosÉ E. LimÓn 221Works Cited 237Selected and Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Chicano Literary Criticism 260Index 275Contributors 287

'Criticism in the Borderlands maps the significant contribution of Chicano and Chicana literary and cultural studies toward defining a culture of resistance in the United States...' --Suzanne Oboler, Novel: A Forum on Fiction