Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Nuevas Fronteras / New Frontiers 1 part 1 Imagining the Americas 1 Latinidad Abroad: The Narrative Maps of Sarmiento, Zavala, and Pérez Rosales 25 2 Mexicanidad at Home: Mariano Vallejo’s Chicano Historiography 60 part 2 Inhabiting America 3 Racialized Bodies and the Limits of the Abstract: María Mena and Daniel Venegas 93 4 More Life in the Skeleton: Caballero and the Teleology of Race 120 part 3 American Diasporas 5 Ana Castillo’s “distinct place in the Americas” 149 6 Border Patrol as Global Surveillance: Post-9/11 Chicana/o Detective Fiction 171 Conclusion: “ . . . Walking in the Dark Forest of the Twenty-First Century” 201 Notes 209 Bibliography 231 Index 245 About the Author 259 This page intentionally left blank ...