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Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe and North and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide answers to the environmental crisis. Diverse ecocritical perspectives add new meaning to the novels, short stories, drama, poetry, films, and documentaries analyzed in this timely and engaged collection.

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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 I¤iguez 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 Espa¤ol in USA; José Antonio Gurpegui Palacios 17. (Too) Changing Landscapes : The Translation of US-Hispanic Literature into Spanish; María López Ponz 18. Writing on the Border: English y Espa¤ol También; Cecilia Montes-Alcalá

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"Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature is a groundbreaking and innovative collection of essays focusing on landscape, space, and Chicano/a ecological literary expressions. The essays included in this volume are written by highly respected and well-known scholars as well as up-and-coming brilliant new voices from Europe, Latin America, and the United States. The articles are original, intelligently written in accessible language, and thought-provoking - bringing to light issues and concerns related to the environment. They make excellent use of sophisticated ecological critical theories as they pertain to Chicana and Chicano literary works." - María Herrera-Sobek, Associate Vice Chancellor and Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UCSB, USA and author of Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions

´A most timely contribution to the developing field of Chicano/a ecocriticism.´ - Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez, Professor, University of California, Merced, USA

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