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Book SynopsisExamines how Chicana literature - its narrative techniques, stylistic conventions, plot dilemmas and resolutions - interrogate the multiple ways space and social relations constitute each other.
Trade Review“Nowhere does the critical spatial imagination flourish more creatively than in Chicana literature. And nowhere is it more effectively expressed than in
Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies. With her own sense of political and cultural urgency, Mary Pat Brady explores the multiple spatial and sexual borderlands of Chicana life, opening up a passionate and transgressive geography that sizzles with insight.”—Edward W. Soja, author of
Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions"
Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies is an outstanding work that reveals the connection between Chicana bodies, literary texts, and geopolitical space. It offers a conceptual framework based on theories of spatialization that provide a greater understanding of what Chicana writing does and why it is significant to our understanding of contemporary U.S. culture. Nobody else does what Mary Pat Brady does so well here."—Rafael Pérez-Torres, author of
Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins”An important contribution to literary studies and spacial critique. In a masterful weave of spatial memories,
Extinct Lands and Temporal Geographies unravels the contested national imagery of
la frontera.”—Mary Romero, coeditor of
Latino/a Popular CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Razing Arizona
2. Double-Crossing la Frontera Nómada
3. Intermarginalia: Chicana/a Spatiality and Sexuality in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa and Terri de la Peña
4. Sandra Cisneros’s Contrapuntal “Geography of Scars”
5. “Against the Nostalgia for the Whole and the One”: Cherrie Moraga, Aztlán, and the Spatiality of Memory
6. “War Again, or Somesuch”: Narrating the Scale and Scope of Narcospatiality
Conclusion: Spelunking through the Interstices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
