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v Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix A Note on Terminology xv Introduction 1 PA R T O N E Domestic Power 1 The Chili Queens of San Antonio: Challenging Domestication through Street Vending and Fashion 27 2 Claiming Domestic Space in the US-Mexico Borderlands: Jovita González and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero and Cleofas Jaramillo’s Romance of a Little Village Girl 49 3 Domestic Power across Borders: Fabiola Cabeza de Baca’s Home Economics Work in New Mexico and Mexico 75 PA R T T WO Domesticana 4 Postnationalist and Domesticana Strategies: Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street and Carmen Lomas Garza’s Familias 103 5 Patssi Valdez’s “A Room of One’s Own”: Self-Fashioning, Glamour, and Domesticity in the Museum and Hollywood 130 Contents vi Contents 6 Redirecting Chicana/Latina Representation: Diane Rodríguez’s Performance and Staging of the Domestic 156 Epilogue: Denaturalizing the Domestic 181 Notes 189 References 215 Index 229 ...