Latino Fiction and the Modernist Imagination Literature of the Borderlands [Paperback]

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. The aim of this book is to approach Latino fiction from a wider perspective, and to cross the standard critical boundaries between Latino groups in order to focus upon the literary language of a collection of complicated novels and stories.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Section I: The Literary Context 000
Chapter One: The Narrative Techniques of the Border 3
Chapter Two: The Magic of Influence upon Latino
Narrative 37
Section II: The Languages of the Borderlands 000
Chapter Three: Latino Voices and English con Salsa 69
Chapter Four: Dreams and Betrayals: Latinos Between
Worlds 105
Section III.: The Cultures and the Carnival 000
Chapter Five: Carnival and the department store called
america 141
Chapter Six: Flowers of the Dead: The Latino Quest
for Ancestors 163
Bibliography 193
IndexJohn S. Christie