{"product_id":"extinct-lands-temporal-geographies-9780822329749","title":"Extinct Lands Temporal Geographies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines how Chicana literature - its narrative techniques, stylistic conventions, plot dilemmas and resolutions -  interrogate the multiple ways space and social relations constitute each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nowhere does the critical spatial imagination flourish more creatively than in Chicana literature. And nowhere is it more effectively expressed than in\u003ci\u003e Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies. \u003c\/i\u003eWith 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 \u003ci\u003ePostmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eExtinct Lands, Temporal Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMovements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e”An important contribution to literary studies and spacial critique. In a masterful weave of spatial memories, \u003ci\u003eExtinct Lands and Temporal Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e unravels the contested national imagery of \u003ci\u003ela frontera\u003c\/i\u003e.”—Mary Romero, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eLatino\/a Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e 1. Razing Arizona \u003cbr\u003e 2. Double-Crossing la Frontera Nómada \u003cbr\u003e 3. Intermarginalia: Chicana\/a Spatiality and Sexuality in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa and Terri de la Peña \u003cbr\u003e 4. Sandra Cisneros’s Contrapuntal “Geography of Scars” \u003cbr\u003e 5. “Against the Nostalgia for the Whole and the One”: Cherrie Moraga, Aztlán, and the Spatiality of Memory \u003cbr\u003e 6. “War Again, or Somesuch”: Narrating the Scale and Scope of Narcospatiality \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Spelunking through the Interstices \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406030938455,"sku":"9780822329749","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822329749.jpg?v=1730494305","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/extinct-lands-temporal-geographies-9780822329749","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}