Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares: Globilization in Recent Mexican and Chicano Narrative

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments ix This book is dedicated to the memory of Antony Higgins, who taught me about the academic profession and true friendship. I would like to thank him and all the people who have been key to the realization of this book. Gwen Kirkpatrick and Danny J. Anderson have been behind me every step of the way. I would like to thank my students, colleagues, chairs, and deans at the University of New Mexico for providing sound mentoring to start and finish this book and for support in the critical stages of the process. I would also like to extend my gratitude to Floyd Merrell and S­usan Clawson for their editing expertise along with all the editors and staff at the Purdue S­tudies in Romance Literatures series. I would like to express my thanks to those who helped me to see beyond the limits of the moment, S­usan Dever, Melissa Axelrod, and Eleuterio S­antiago-Díaz, as well as my fellow mexicanistas Ignacio Corona, Ignacio S­ánchez Prado, and José Pablo Villalobos, whose dialogue and collaboration expedited the elaboration of this book. Thanks are due also to the folks in Interlibrary Loan at the University of New Mexico, who have searched far and wide to find me all the materials I needed. And finally I thank my wife, Kimberle López, for bearing with me through it all. Permission has been granted by the journal Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies to reprint portions of chapter 2 that appeared previously in an article entitled “The Politics of Blood: Miscegenation and Degeneration in Alejandro Morales’s The Rag Doll Plagues,” published in issue 28.1 (2003): 39–73. Permission has also been granted to reprint the portions of chapter 4 on Homero Aridjis that were previously published under the title “Pensar la nación mexicana a través del apocalipsis ecológico en dos novelas distópicas de Homero Aridjis” in the volume La luz queda en el aire: estudios internacionales en honor a Homero Aridjis, edited by Thomas S­tauder (Frankfurt: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Press, 2005), 173–86. ...