Critical Essays on Chicano Studies

Contents: Jesús Lerate/Juan I. Guijarro: Introduction - Jesús Lerate/María Ángeles Toda Iglesia: Entrevista con Ana Castillo - Esther Álvarez López: Culinary Metaphors and Chicano Culture in Elaine Romero's The Fat-Free Chicana and The Snow Cap Queen - Manuel Brito: Language Working to Uncover the Social and the Cultural: The Example of Rodrigo Toscano - María Jesús Castro Dopacio: The Feminization of Domestic Architecture in Pat Mora's House of Houses - Antonia Domínguez Miguela: Redefining the Father Figure in Contemporary Chicana Literature - Sophia Emmanouilidou: Identity Formation and Barrio Life: The Spatial Hermeneutic in Amelia Valdez's Autobiographical Account 'Surviving the Barrio' - Salvador C. Fernández: The Bandit and the Preacher: 19th-Century Protagonists in Southwest Literature - Isabel García Martínez/Isabel Álvarez Inguanzo: Presencias y ausencias en el arte del Southwest: El muralismo Chicano frente a la invisibilidad artística en los emporios Fred Harvey y Santa Fe Railroad - Vida Mía García: Ambivalent Invitations: Come and Take It Day's. 'Neo-Turista Hybrid' and the Legacies of Empire - Juanita Heredia: Caramelo: Crossing Borders in Translating Golden Age Mexican Culture - María Herrera-Sobek: Caramelo: The Politics of Popular Culture in Sandra Cisneros's Novel - Guisela Latorre: Rigoberta Menchú, Yemayá and Coyolxauhqui: Afro-Indigenous Aesthetics in Maestrapeace - María Dolores Narbona Carrión: The Conflict Between the American Dream and Chicano Traditions: Josefina López's Simply María or The American Dream - Antonia Navarro Tejero: La representación estereotipada del género en la ficción chicana e india de los años 90 - Melanie Prapopoulos: Reclaiming Identity Through Experience and Myth and Working Towards Solidarity: Malinche Re-Written - Nohemy Solórzano-Thompson: Family Fatherhood, and Masculinity in Gregory Nava's Mi Familia (1995) - Sandra Soto: Aztec Queens and Gypsy Kings: Reading Ana Castillo's Eroticized Mestizaje - Lisa

The Editors: Ramón Espejo, Juan-Ignacio Guijarro, Jesús Lerate, Pilar Marín and María Ángeles Toda Iglesia are American Studies scholars and all of them teach and conduct research for the University of Sevilla (Spain). As members of the American Studies Research Group, they have been responsible for the organization of numerous international conferences as well as for the publication of several books.