Threshold Time : Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature
Lene. Johannessen
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Amsterdam : : Editions Rodopi, , 2008.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (205 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Threshold Time Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION. The Open Totality of Thresholds; CHAPTER I. A History of Borderland Routes; CHAPTER II. A Literary Blossoming; CHAPTER III. Disillusion and Defiance in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don; CHAPTER IV. The Appropriate(d) Hero: Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez; CHAPTER V. Exercises in Liminality: Tomás Rivera's ... And the Earth Did not Devour Him; CHAPTER VI. The Dialogic Mind: The Education of Richard Rodriguez. - CHAPTER VII. Memories of Landscape 1: The Meaning of Place in Helena María Viramontes' Under the Feet of JesusCHAPTER VIII. Aesthetics of Time in Chicano Literature; Bibliography; Index. - 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 Gómez , Tomás Rivera's ... And the Earth Did Not Devour Him , Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory , and ends with Helena María Viramontes' Under t
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| Dewey | 810.986872073 . - 810.9
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| ISBN | 9789042023321
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