CONTENTS

Acknowledgments vii

I NTRODUC TIONChicana/o Narratives, Then and Now

1William Orchard and Yolanda Padilla

CH A P TER 1The Diachronics of Difference:

Chicano Narrative Then, Now, and before Chicanidad25

Jesse Alemán

CH A P TER 2The Transnational Imaginaries of Chicano/a Studies and Hemispheric Studies:

Polycentric and Centrifugal Methodologies40

David Luis-Brown

CH A P TER 3The “Other” Novel of the Mexican Revolution

63Yolanda Padilla

CH A P TER 4Desiring History in Sabina Berman’s and Sandra Cisneros’s

Narratives of the Mexican Revolution80

Belinda Linn Rincón

CH A P TER 5Finding Mexican Chicago on Mango Street:

A Transnational Production of Space and Place in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street and Caramelo

103Olga L. Herrera

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CH A P TER 6Resisting the Interpretive Schema of the Novel Form:

Rereading Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street121

Paula M. L. Moya

CH A P TER 7Chicano Narrative’s Hidden Print Cultures and the Chicano/a Literary Counterpublic

139John Alba Cutler

CH A P TER 8I Digress:

Reading Chicano Narrative and Manuel Muñoz’s “Monkey, Sí”159

Ralph E. Rodriguez

CH A P TER 9Chicano Narrative Now:

Literary Discourses in an Age of Transnationalism171

Ramón Saldívar

CHAPTER 10“You Choose Your Space and You Fight There”

An Interview with Ramón Saldívar177

Notes 201

Works Cited 213

Contributors 229

Index 233