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228 Index acculturation, 15, 45, 113, 195n. 14 aisthesis, 46 Akrílica (Herrera), 111 The Archeology of Knowledge (Foucault), 142 audiences, 22–23; and different repertoires , 121; diversity of, 2, 111–12; double, 167; engendering and gendering, 71; envisioning, 27, 71; ethnically undifferentiated, 67; female, 102; ideal, 71; imagining and formation, 24; implied, 76; lack of, 13; making text accessible for heterogeneous, 112; multiple, 120; participative relationship between orator and, 30; and pre-Chicano/a literature, 10–15; rewriting text for new, 121; as subjects, 67; transnational, multilingual, and multicultural, 167; unknown and imagined, 42; working-class and middle-class readers, 42 authorial figure: absence of, 29 author of books nobody read, 61–62 autobiographism, 60 Aztec deities, 84 Beowulf, 165 Bernabé (Valdez), 84 Between Two Worlds (Paredes), 140 bilingualism, 19 blank vs. negation, 195n. 12 Bless Me, Ultima (Anaya), 12, 22, 33–39, 115, 118; written as a bestseller, 36 borderlands, 86, 90, 111, 155, 157 Borderlands (Anzaldúa), 87–90, 94 Breve reseña de la literatura hispana de Nuevo México y Colorado (López, Núñez, and Vialpando), 159 Caballero: A Historical Novel (Raleigh), 140 Caló, 108, 110, 169 canonical evolution, 147 canonical revisionism, 146 canon of sacred texts, 162 Cartas marruecas (Cadalso), 96 catharsis, 50–51 characters: children as, 115–16; as writers and/or readers, 41, 57 Chicano/a literature: and access to promotional and distributional channels, 28; anthropological or ethnographic discourse in, 116; and “being the first one”, 12; commodification of, 123, 128, 130, 133; connectors and discontinuities, 155; control and intellectual ownership, 68; and cover art, 124, 131–34; creation of alternative spaces and venues, 110; and critical sponsorship, 124; defining, 1; forgotten, 65; gynocentric and didactic approaches, 4; and immigrant literature, 126; institutionalization of, 17; and isolation of writers from one another, 11–12; linguistic evolution of, 108; marked by characteristics, 153; marketing and promotion of, 123–38; and marketing labels, 5; and nationalism, 156–60; necessity of the reader, 63; in oral and printed forms, 16, 21; of protest, 148; read differently in different times, 145; reconstructed canon of, 153; recovery of lost works, 139–70; and remapping of feminine space, 73; renaissance of, 110; rhizomatic literary history of, 165–70; significance of künstlerroman as a genre, 41; and textual strategies, 5; as transnational phenomena, 158–59  228 229 Chicano/a Movement, 3, 9, 15, 16; and creation of Chicano/a consciousness , 17; growth of feminism within, 69; national unity no longer possible in post-Movement era, 138; and search for national culture and visibility, 18 Chicano Authors (Bruce-Novoa), 108 Chicano Narrative (Saldívar), 38, 54, 80 Chicanos/as: and establishment of presses, 20; publishing outlets available to, 5; and war experience, 15 chronology, 13, 54, 55, 100, 141–42, 154, 156, 163 coherent deformation, 31 coincidentia oppositorum, 36 The Collected Stories of María Cristina Mena (Doherty), 140 collective campesino experience, 23 Come Down from the Mound (Ornelas), 69 costumbrismo, 31, 114, 121, 167 El Coyote the Rebel (Pérez), 140 Crónicas diabólicas (Ulica), 139 cronicón, 30 Crusade for Justice, 16 cultural continuity, 153 cultural history, 91 cultural nationalism, 84, 86, 92 cultural Other, 69 cultural production, controlling the means of, 11 cultural revisionism, 143 The Day of the Swallows (PortilloTrambley ), 69 The Decline of the Californios (Pitt), 149 The Decolonial Imaginary (Pérez), 164 deculturation, 195n. 14 A Description of California in 1828, 141 desert as metaphor, 63 detached interpreter, 49 Dew on the Thorn (González), 140 Diary of Captain Antonio Argüello, October 17–November 17, 1821, 141 didactic novels, 104–105 differential consciousness, 163–64 discontinuity, 26, 155 discrepant temporalities, 155 displacement and marginalization, history of, 154 double positionality, 83 Dreaming in Cuban (García), 125–26 elitism, 150 elliptical style, 26 encyclopedism, 154–56, 202n. 33 epistolary novels, 132 Estampas del Valle (Hinojosa), 121 fairy tales, 77–79, 102 feminism: in Chicano/a Movement, 69; of color, 70 feminization of repertoire, 82, 83, 85 film, 49–50; semiotics of, 78 Floricanto en Aztlán (Alurista), 144 folklore, 153; and folkloric materials, 10 fragmentarism, 21, 90 Friends of the Bancroft Library, 140 gendered communication, 83 gendered perception, 93 gendered voice, 81 genres: bildungsroman, 76; costumbrismo, 31, 114, 121, 167; epistolary novels, 96, 98, 99; ethnographic diaries, 96; künstlerroman, 41; multiple literary, 31; proliferation of, 31 George Washington Gómez (Paredes), 140 Great Cowboy, 65 haiku, 81 The Hammer and the Beans and Other Stories (Paredes), 140 Heart of Aztl...

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