Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-153) and index.
Contents
Prologue. Parto de palabra : the many births of the migrant song -- "In our own land" : politics and cultural process in contemporary Chicano literature -- Chicano poetry and the political age : the Canales/Córdova corridos as social drama -- "On lies, secrets, and silence" : hunger of memory as autobiography : a comparative perspective -- Power reversals and the comic : Rolando Hinojosa as a political writer -- Engendering the border : toward a Chicana literary aesthetic -- Epilogue. Borderness and pedagogy : exposing culture in the classroom.
