In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

vii Acknowledgments The research and writing of this book have benefited from the following grants and fellowships: A. Whitney Griswold Faculty Award (Yale University), Morse Fellowship (Yale University), Summer Research Support (College of Liberal Arts, Wayne State University), Summer Research Grant (College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University), and Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities (Texas A&M University). My most sincere thanks to these institutions for their support. Parts of the section “Peregrinos de Aztlán: In Search of the Forgotten Chicano/a Literary History” (in chapter ) appeared in Spanish as “En la frontera del lenguaje: Escritores y lectores en Peregrinos de Aztlán” in Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingüe . (September–December ): – .Parts of the section“Linguistic and Literary Strategies for Addressing a Multicultural Readership” (in chapter ) were published as “The Act of Reading Chicano/a Texts: Strategies for Creating a Multicultural Readership”in Language and Literature XXIV (): –. I would like to thank Dr. Gary D. Keller and Dr. Bates L. Hoffer for their kind permission to reproduce these materials here. Finally, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the team of editors that have worked with me on this project: Elizabeth Hadas, Karen Taschek, and Evelyn A. Schlatter have been of great help along the way. vii viii ...

Share