Bordering fires : the vintage book of contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a literature /
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| Imprint: | New York : Vintage Books, c2006. |
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| Description: | xxvii, 270 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6159423 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Prelude: Samuel Ramos: Excerpt from "The Use of Thought"
- Early Influences
- "Major Aranda's Hand"
- "My Cousin Agueda" and "In the Wet Shadows"
- Excerpt from Pedro Paramo
- "L.A. Nocturne: The Angels"
- Chicano/A Voices 1
- "How to Tame a Wild Tongue"
- "India"
- "Meditations on the South Valley: Poem IX"
- "B. Traven Is Alive and Well in Cuernavaca"
- Contemporary Mexican Voices
- Excerpt from The Death of Artemio Cruz
- Introduction from Here's to You, Jesusa!
- "The Day of the Dead" and "I Speak of the City"
- Excerpt from The Book of Lamentations
- Chicano/A Voices 2
- "Daddy with Chesterfields in a Rolled Up Sleeve"
- "Never Marry a Mexican"
- "Maria de Covina"
- Excerpt from Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
- New Departures
- "Hagiography of the Apostate"
- "Aunt Leonor" and "Aunt Natalia"
- "Identity Hour or, What Photos Would You Take of the Endless City?"
- "Fish of Fleeting Skin"
- Notes About the Authors
- Permissions Acknowledgments
