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Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicana and Chicano Literature

As the descendants of Mexican immigrants have settled throughout the United States, a great literature has emerged, but its correspondances with the literature of Mexico have gone largely unobserved. In Bordering Fires, the first anthology to combine writing from both sides of the Mexican-U.S. border, Cristina Garc’a presents a richly diverse cross-cultural conversation. Beginning with Mexican masters such as Alfonso Reyes and Juan Rulfo, Garc’a highlights historic voices such as “the godfather of Chicano literature” Rudolfo Anaya, and Gloria Anzaldœa, who made a powerful case for language that reflects bicultural experience. From the fierce evocations of Chicano reality in Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Poem IX to the breathtaking images of identity in Coral Bracho’s poem “Fish of Fleeting Skin,” from the work of Carlos Fuentes to Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo to Octavio Paz, this landmark collection of fiction, essays, and poetry offers an exhilarating new vantage point on our continent — and on the best of contemporary literature.

Contents

Prelude:

Excerpt from The use of thought / Samuel Ramos

Early influences:

Major Aranda's hand / Alfonso Reyes

My cousin Agueda, and In the wet shadows / Ramón López Velarde

Excerpt from Pedro Páramo / Juan Rulfo

L.A. nocturne : the angels / Xavier Villaurrutia

Chicano/a voices I:

How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa

India / Richard Rodriguez

Meditations on the South Valley: Poem IX / Jimmy Santiago Baca

B. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca / Rudolfo Anaya

Contemporary Mexican voices:

Excerpt from The death of Artemio Cruz / Carlos Fuentes

Introduction from Here's to you, Jesusa! / Elena Poniatowska

The day of the dead, and I speak of the city / Octavio Paz

Excerpt from The book of lamentations / Rosario Castellanos

Chicano/a voices 2:

Daddy with Chesterfields in a rolled up sleeve / Ana Castillo

Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros

Maria de Covina / Dagoberto Gilb

Excerpt from Crossing over : a Mexican family on the migrant trail / Rubén Martínez

New departures:

Hagiography of the apostate / Ignacio Padilla

Aunt Leonor, and Aunt Natalia / Ángeles Mastretta

Identity hour or, What photos would you take of the endless city / Carlos Monsiváis

Fish of fleeting skin / Coral Bracho

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 304
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-1-4000-7718-2
  • EAN
  • 9781400077182
  • Genres
  • poetry, anthologies, fiction
  • Release date
  • 2006