Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space

Mary Pat Brady

Published by Duke University Press 2002

Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies

Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space

Mary Pat Brady
Edited by: Walter D. Mignolo , Irene Silverblatt and Sonia Saldívar-Hull

In the series Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383864

Overview
Contents

About this book

Examines how Chicana literature -- its narrative techniques, stylistic conventions, plot dilemmas and resolutions -- interrogate the multiple ways space and social relations constitute each other.

Author / Editor information

Mary Pat Brady is Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University.

Reviews

“Nowhere does the critical spatial imagination flourish more creatively than in Chicana literature. And nowhere is it more effectively expressed than in Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies. With her own sense of political and cultural urgency, Mary Pat Brady explores the multiple spatial and sexual borderlands of Chicana life, opening up a passionate and transgressive geography that sizzles with insight.”—Edward W. Soja, author of Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions

"Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies is an outstanding work that reveals the connection between Chicana bodies, literary texts, and geopolitical space. It offers a conceptual framework based on theories of spatialization that provide a greater understanding of what Chicana writing does and why it is significant to our understanding of contemporary U.S. culture. Nobody else does what Mary Pat Brady does so well here."—Rafael Pérez-Torres, author of Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins

”An important contribution to literary studies and spacial critique. In a masterful weave of spatial memories, Extinct Lands and Temporal Geographies unravels the contested national imagery of la frontera.”—Mary Romero, coeditor of Latino/a Popular Culture

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
About the Series Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Razing Arizona Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2 Double-Crossing la Frontera Nómada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
3 Intermarginalia: Chicana/a Spatiality and Sexuality in theWork of Gloria Anzaldúa and Terri de la Peña Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
4 Sandra Cisneros’s Contrapuntal ‘‘Geography of Scars’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
5 ‘‘Against the Nostalgia for the Whole and the One’’: Cherríe Moraga, Aztlán, and the Spatiality of Memory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
6 ‘‘War Again, or Somesuch’’: Narrating the Scale and Scope of Narcospatiality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Conclusion: Spelunking through the Interstices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 288

eBook

Published: November 15, 2002
ISBN: 9780822383864