Chicano Narrative: Dialectics of Difference [Paperback]

In struggling to retain their cultural unity, the Mexican–American communities of the American Southwest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have produced a significant body of literature.Chicano Narrativeexamines representative narratives—including the novel, short story, narrative verse, and autobiography—that have been excluded from the American canon.

In struggling to retain their cultural unity, the Mexican–American communities of the American Southwest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have produced a significant body of literature.Chicano Narrativeexamines representative narratives—including the novel, short story, narrative verse, and autobiography—that have been excluded from the American canon.