A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction

Index

I N DE X Abraham, Taisha, 53, 64 Acosta, Oscar “Zeta,” 29 Ada (Nabokov), 106 aesthetics, 3–4 Afghanistan, 74 Africa, 75, 87, 94–95, 163–164n17 African American signifying monkey, 20 Afzal-Khan, Fawzia, 158n13 Agarwal, Ramlal, 54 Aguirre Beltrán, Gonzalo, 18 “Ahimsa” (Roy), 53 Ahmad, Aijaz, 54, 157n7 Allende, Isabel, 28 Alter, Robert, 39, 93 Alter, Stephen, 65 Always Running (L. Rodriguez), 141 Amazing Fantasy, 110–111 Amis, Kingsley, 94 Anil’s Ghost (Ondaatje), 38 Anita and Me (Syal), 8 antirealism, 65 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 7 Apter, Emily, 68 Araña, 110–111, 113 Argentina, 159n14 Armah, Ayi Kwei, 30 Armstrong, Nancy, 83 Arteaga, Alfred, 40 Arte Público, 135 Arundhati Roy: The Novelist Extraordinary (Dhawan), 55 Atlas of the European Novel (Moretti), 83–84 Austen, Jane, 83–84 author, implied. See implied author Autobiography of the Brown Buffalo, The (Acosta), 29 Avery, Fiona Kai, 110–111 Axelrod, M. R., 159n1 Azteca: The Story of Jaguar Woman, 131–132 Aztec of the City, 116–117, 126, 127 Aztlán movement, 8–9, 20 “Babies” (A. Rodriguez), 38 Bal, Mieke, 14 Baldwin, Shauna Sing, 64 Ballard, Lee, 131 Bandit Queen, 53 barbarism, 18–19 Bardo99 (Pineda), 38 Barnes, Djuna, 162n12 Barnes, Julian, 94 Barth, John, 37 Barthelme, Donald, 37 Bartleby, the Scrivener (Melville), 33 Batman, 112 Batman: The Animated Series, 112 Baumgartner’s Garden (Desai), 51 Bedford, James Gavin, 24 Bendis, Brian, 112 Benito, Jesús, 5 184 Index Beuka, Robert, 143 Bhabha, Homi K., 20, 55, 67–72, 74–76, 155nn2–3 Bhatt, Indira, 55 bildungsroman, 83, 87, 92–93, 95 Bilingual Review, 135 bilingual word play, 38 Birdland, 125 Black British Literature (Stein), 22, 90–91 Blood Syndicate, 114–116, 125, 126 Blue Beetle, 112, 113 body, 88–89, 160n4 Boehmer, Elleke, 5, 20, 50, 55, 56 Bone People, The (Hulme), 42–43 Bongco, Mila, 131 Booker Prize, 52, 54 Booth, Wayne, 45 borderland fiction. See postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction; and specific authors and titles of their works Borderlands (Anzaldúa), 7 Borges, Jorge Luis, 1, 12, 156n4, 162n12 Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (Coetzee), 29 Boy Without a Flag, The (A. Rodriguez ), 38–39 Brooks, Mark, 111 Bros Hernandez, Los, 14, 117–120, 122–125, 128, 130–133, 167n3 Brown on Brown (Aldama), 2, 34, 35, 46, 50, 159n1 Brown Power movement, 136 Brubaker, Ed, 113 Buddha of Suburbia (Kureishi), 4, 5 Burroughs, William, 162n12 Buscema, Sal, 107 Calcutta Chromosome, The (Ghosh), 40 Camus, Albert, 19, 33, 139 Candide (Voltaire), 94, 106 capitalism: historical development of, 18, 72, 157n8; Latino comic books on, 117; oppressive and exploitive nature of, 11, 12; postcolonial theory of, 67; and power, 67, 71; and private property, 74; and Rodriguez ’s short stories, 148, 153; and romance genre, 84; Roy on, 52; in Roy’s God of Small Things, 57, 59; and working class, 74–76. See also nation carnivalesque style, 87, 92 Carrier, David, 131 Carter, Forrest, 7 Carver, Raymond, 138 Castillo, Ana, 5, 29–30, 135 Century magazine, 135 Cervantes, Miguel de, 36, 84, 106, 162n12 Chakravarty, Joya, 55 character-as-narrator, 29–30, 144, 152 characters. See specific novels Chávez, Denise, 135 Chavez, Linda, 136 Chekov, Anton, 139 Chicanos, 129, 130 Chicanos: and Aztlán movement, 8–9, 20; and Brown Power movement, 136; mainstreaming of, 9–10, 136; short stories by, 135–137. See also specific authors and their works “Chicas Chuecas, Las” (L. Rodriguez), 20, 45, 145–147, 150–153 Chomsky, Noam, 156n3 Christopher Unborn (Fuentes), 106 Cihualyaomiquiz, the Jaguar, 117, 132 Cisneros, Henry, 136 Cisneros, Sandra, 5, 135, 136, 153 Claremont, Chris, 167n1 Clark, Mary Higgins, 92, 140 Clinton, Bill, 136 code switching, 10, 13, 15, 38–39, 109, 115, 146 Coetzee, J. M., 29, 32, 36–37 cognitive science, 121–123, 126–127. See also neurobiology Index 185 Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts (Hogan), 161n9 cognitive style. See will to style Cohn, Dorrit, 31–32, 62–63, 76–77 colonialism. See imperialism and colonialism comic books: Latino characters in mainstream comics, 107–113, 167n1; Latino comic book author-artists’ enjoyment of mainstream comic books, 107, 167n3; superheroes of, 107–113, 168n5. See also Latino comic books; and specific comic books Comics and Sequential Art (Eisner), 121 Compton, Timothy G., 162n13 Conrad, Joseph, 10, 35, 51, 94, 95, 102, 163–164n17 “Continuity of Parks” (Cortázar), 41 Conway, Gerry, 108 Cortázar, Julio, 41 Course in General Linguistics (de...