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Threshold Time
Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature
Series: - Costerus New Series Online, Volume: 173
- Costerus New Series, Volume: 173
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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 âpassage of crisisâ with Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burtonâs The Squatter and the Don, continues with Americo Paredesâ George Washington Gómez, Tomás Riveraâs â¦And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, Richard Rodriguezâs Hunger of Memory, and ends with Helena MarÃa Viramontesâ Under the Feet of Jesus and Benjamin Alire Sáenzâ 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.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Open Totality of Thresholds
I. A History of Borderland Routes
II. Literary Blossoming
III. Disillusion and Defiance in MarÃa Amparo Ruiz de Burtonâs The Squatter and the Don
IV. The Appropriate(d) Hero: Americo Paredesâ George Washington Gómez
V. Exercises in Liminality: Tomás Riveraâs â¦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 MarÃa Viramontesâ Under the Feet of Jesus
2: The Threshold â Benjamin Alire Sáenzâ 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 MarÃa Amparo Ruiz de Burtonâs The Squatter and the Don
IV. The Appropriate(d) Hero: Americo Paredesâ George Washington Gómez
V. Exercises in Liminality: Tomás Riveraâs â¦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 MarÃa Viramontesâ Under the Feet of Jesus
2: The Threshold â Benjamin Alire Sáenzâ Carry Me Like Water
VIII. The Aesthetics of Time in Chicano Literature
Bibliography
Index