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A Critical Collection on Alejandro Morales : Forging an Alternative Chicano Fiction /

"Alejandro Morales is a pioneer of Chicana and Chicano literature and the author of groundbreaking works including The Brick People, The Rag Doll Plagues, and River of Angels. His work, often experimental, was one of the first to depict harsh urban realities in the barrios-a break from much of...

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Otros Autores: Lomelí, Francisco A. (Editor ), García-Martínez, Marc (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Alejandro Morales : an errant maverick faces the literary canon and history / Marc García-Martínez and Francisco A. Lomelí
  • Submersion, suffocation, and entombment of the Mexican and immigrant body in River of angels : probing figurations of violence and isolation / Marc García-Martínez
  • The analogous correspondence of an extreme poetics between Stanley Kubrick's A clockwork orange and Alejandro Morales' Barrio on the edge / Francisco A. Lomelí
  • Alejandro Morales' The captain of all these men of death and Philip Roth's Nemesis : parallels and contrasts / Stephen Miller
  • Tropes of ecothinking and the spatial imaginary in Alejandro Morales' River of angels / Sophia Emmanouilidou
  • History, spatial justice, and the esperpento in Alejandro Morales' Pequeña nación / Jesús Rosales
  • Heterotopia and the emergence of the modern ilusa in Waiting to happen / Margarita López López
  • city history and space politics : Los Angeles in Morales' River of angels / Baojie Li
  • Pequeña nación : big (feminist) revolution / Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo
  • Bodies in motion in The place of the white heron, volume two of the Heterotopian trilogy : a glance through the panopticon / Adam Spires
  • Race, space, and magical realism in The brick people and River of angels / Adina Ciugureanu
  • Mestizaje, cultural identity, and environmental degradation in Alejandro Morales' The rag doll plagues / Manuel M. Martín Rodríguez
  • Translation as rewriting and resituating : the two English versions of Caras viejas y vino nuevo by Alejandro Morales / Elena Errico
  • History and fiction in Alejandro Morales' narratives / Luis Leal
  • Epidemics, epistemophilia, and racism : ecological literary criticism and The rag doll plagues / María Herrera-Sobek
  • A dialogue with the writer Alejandro Morales / Francisco Lomelí, Marc García-Martínez, and Daniel Olivas.