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Bringing cognitive methodologies to the analysis of Chicano/a fiction for the first time, this book maps ethics of “persistence” and “transformation” in the fiction of Rudolfo Anaya, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Rolando Hinojosa, Arturo Islas, John Rechy, Alfredo Véa, and Helena María Viramontes.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Toward New Mappings of Contemporary Chicano/a Fiction
  • Chapter 1: Mapping Resistance in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima and Rolando Hinojosa's "Sometimes It Just Happens That Way; That's All"
  • Chapter 2: Mapping Persistence in John Rechy's The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez and Helena María Viramontes's "The Cariboo Café"
  • Chapter 3: Cosmopolitan Communities in Alfredo Véa's La Maravilla and Ana Castillo's So Far from God
  • Chapter 4: Changing Minds in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia and Arturo Islas's La Mollie and the King of Tears
  • Chapter 5: The Transformative Spaces of Alfredo Véa's The Silver Cloud Café and Gods Go Begging
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/2011
      ISBN13: 9780292743977, 978-0292743977
      ISBN10: 0292743971

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Bringing cognitive methodologies to the analysis of Chicano/a fiction for the first time, this book maps ethics of “persistence” and “transformation” in the fiction of Rudolfo Anaya, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Rolando Hinojosa, Arturo Islas, John Rechy, Alfredo Véa, and Helena María Viramontes.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction: Toward New Mappings of Contemporary Chicano/a Fiction
      • Chapter 1: Mapping Resistance in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima and Rolando Hinojosa's "Sometimes It Just Happens That Way; That's All"
      • Chapter 2: Mapping Persistence in John Rechy's The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez and Helena María Viramontes's "The Cariboo Café"
      • Chapter 3: Cosmopolitan Communities in Alfredo Véa's La Maravilla and Ana Castillo's So Far from God
      • Chapter 4: Changing Minds in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia and Arturo Islas's La Mollie and the King of Tears
      • Chapter 5: The Transformative Spaces of Alfredo Véa's The Silver Cloud Café and Gods Go Begging
      • Conclusion
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
      • Index

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