International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies This World is My Place [Paperback]

This volume examines how the field of Chicana/o studies has developed to become an area of interest to scholars far beyond the United States and Spain. For this reason, the volume includes contributions by a range of international scholars and takes the concept of place as a unifying paradigm. As a way of overcoming borders that are both physical and metaphorical, it seeks to reflect the diversity and range of current scholarship in Chicana/o studies while simultaneously highlighting the diverse and constantly evolving nature of Chicana/o identities and cultures.

Various critical and theoretical approaches are evident, from eco-criticism and autoethnography in the first section, to the role of fiction and visual art in exposing injustice in section two, to the discussion of transnational and transcultural exchange with reference to issues as diverse as the teaching of Chicana/o studies in Russia and the relevance of Anzald?as writings to post 9/11 U.S. society.

Introduction.  Part I: Critical Paradigms: Continuities and Transitions  1. From Chapbooks to Chica Lit: U.S. Latina Writers and the New Literary Identity Ellen McCracken  2. Healing Family History/ (Her) Story: Writing and Gardening in Pat Moras House of HousesImelda Mart?n-Junquera  3. Transculturation, Memory, and History: Mary Helen Ponces Hoyt StreetAn AutobiographyMario T. Garc?a.  Part II: From the Regional to the Global  4. My Super Sweet Fifteen: The Internationalisation of Quincea?erasin Literature and Film Niamh Thornton  5. American Studies in Russia: Learning Chicana/o Literature in Chita (Siberia) Tatiana Voronchenko  6. Moving Subjects: The Politics of Death in Narratives of the Ju?rez Murders NuallSÍ