Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature

PART I: THE LANDSCAPE IN THE WORK OF SANDRA CISNEROS 1. Home, Streets, Nature: Esperanza's Itineraries in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street ; Elisabetta Careri, 2. Harvesting a Chicana Cultural Landscape: The Manipulation in Sandra Cisneros' 'Women Hollering Creek'; Elena Avilés 3. Perfomance and Linguistic Spectacle in Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo and Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ; Ellen McCracken 4. Thresholds of Writing: Text and Paratext in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo or Puro Cuento ; Maria Laura Spoturno PART II: THE LANDSCAPE OF THE FEMALE BODY 5. Chicana Poetry:Writing the Feminine into the Landscape; Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe 6. Reading Los Angeles 'Costureras ' in the Landscape of Josefina López's Real Women Have Curves ; Yolanda Godsey 7. Changing Landscapes in Chicano Countryside; CarmenMelchor Iñiguez and María Jesús Perea Villena PART III: LANDSCAPES OF TRAUMA 8. Memory and Trauma: Chicano Autobiographies and The Vietnam War; Berta Delgado 9. Barrio Vistas: Urban Milieu and Cultural Visibility in Mario Suárez's Short Story 'Tuscon, Arizona: El Hoyo'; Sophia Emmanouilidou 10. 'We Are All Serafina's Children:' Racial Landscapes in Rudolfo Anaya; Manuel Broncano Rodríguez 11. Landscaping a Poetics of Belonging: Maps of the imagination in Chicana/o Literature; Tey Diana Rebolledo 12. Devotion and Transnationalism: Aimultaneous Guadalupan Landscapes; María Jesús Castro Dopacio PART IV: ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM 13. The Space of Disease in Alejandro Morales's The Captain of All These Men of Death ; Roberto Ayala 14. Rudolfo Anaya's Shifting Sense of Place; Carmen Flys Junquera PART V: LANDSCAPES OF LANGUAGE, REFLECTIONS ON CODESWITCHING AND THE BORDER 15. Sitio y lengua: Chicana Third Space Feminist Theory; Norma Elia Cantú 16. 'In Spanish, Mi Hermano, in Spanish': Is Good to Speak in Español in USA; José Antonio Gurpegui Palacios 17. (Too) Changing Landscapes : The Translation of US-Hispanic Literature into Spanish; María López Ponz 18.

Elena Avilés, University of New Mexico, USARoberto Ayala, University of California, Irvine, USAElyette Benjamin-Labarthe, Michel de Montaigne University, FranceManuel Broncano Rodríguez, Texas A&M International University, USANorma Cantú, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USAElisabetta Careri, English and Spanish teacher and translatorMaría Jesús Castro Dopacio, independent scholarBerta Delgado Melgosa, independent scholarSophia Emmanouilidou, Greek Ministry of Education, GreeceCarmen Flys Junquera, University of Alcalá de Henares, SpainYolanda Godsey, University of Houston, USAJose Antonio Gurpegui Palacios, University of Alcalá de Henares, SpainMaría López Ponz, University of Salamanca, SpainEllen McCracken, University of California, Santa Barbara, USACarmen Melchor Íñiguez, independent scholarCecilia Montes-Alcalá, Georgia Institute of Technology, USATey Diana Rebolledo; University of New Mexico, USAMaría Laura Spoturno, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina