Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

AC K NOW L E DGM E N TS The writing of a book involves a host of people who participate at different levels. First I would like to thank all of the fine people at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Women’s Studies Program. My colleagues Jacqueline Bobo, Eileen Boris, Grace Chang, Barbara Hawthorne , Laury Oaks, Mireille Miller-Young, Leila Rupp, Barbara Tomlinson , and Juliet Williams have been the best colleagues anyone could possibly want. Their intellect, commitment to social justice, and collegiality created a supportive environment that helped to move this project forward. I do not think that I could have done this without them. My thanks also go to Lou Anne Lockwood for her generous support. I could not have written this book without the support of several other units at UC Santa Barbara. I appreciate the Center for Ethnic and Multicultural Archives and especially Sal Güereña for help with the research archives and the Chicana/o Studies Institute for grants to help with production costs of this book. Thanks to Carl Gutiérrez-Jones and Carlos Morton, as directors of CSI, for promoting new projects such as this study. Special thanks go to Dean of Social Sciences Melvyn Oliver for providing funding for this project. My thanks also go to the students and the director of the Resource Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity for including me in their events and welcoming me as part of the campus community. At ucla, special thanks go to Chon Noriega at the Chicana/o Studies Research Center for providing office space and institutional support and especially to Chicana/o studies librarian Yolanda Redder, whose dedication as a scholar provided so much as I worked there. Special thanks to Chicana/ Latina Studies: The Journal of MALCS for permission to use a portion of my essay “Future Perfect” in Chapter Two. I thank Lorena Vargas, Cynthia Briseño, and Daisy Velasquez for typing and technical support and Sherri Barnes for her generous work to help complete this project. I would like to thank Alma Lopez for the use of the viii Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture image Lupe and Sirena in Love. My thanks also go to Theresa May, Victoria Davis, and Megan Giller at the University of Texas Press. Special thanks go to María “Maty” García for all the caldo de pollo, calabazas de pollo, and special foods she cooked for me as I was working on this project. To Morena Encina and Lupita Orantes, doy gracias por toda la ayuda durante este tiempo de escribir un proyecto tan enorme. Among my close friends and family, I especially want to thank Elizabeth Dettmer, Laura Rendon and Nellie Duran for their continued friendship over the years. To Norma Cantú, Elvia Niebla, Norma Alarcón, Diana Martínez, Jorge Valadez, Nani González, Roberto Guzman, and all friends back home, my thanks for being there. I thank Harijiwan Khalsa, friend and teacher, and Erin McGeever and the kundalini yoga group in Los Angeles for their inspiration and energy work. I thank my parents, Tony and Rosa Hernández, for being so silly, even in their old age. Thanks also go to my brothers, Tony III and Carlos, and my sisters, Rosa Isabel, Norma, and Claudia, for their inspiration and sense of humor. But most importantly, I wish to thank Deena J. González, Antonia Castañeda, and Emma Pérez, important scholars who have influenced my thinking, for being there through it all. It is because of them that I am able to transcend the nation. postnationalism in chicana/o liter ature and culture THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...