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Index Acosta, Oscar Zeta, 1 Adams-Onís Treaty, 4 albahaca. See basil Allen, Paul L., 215n38 Alonzo, Armando, 108 Americanos. See Americans in Mexico American Revolution, 100 Americans in Mexico, 50, 79, 109, 111, 125, 144, 148, 151 Amerindians. See Indians “anarchic spirit” (Renza), 21 ancestors. See genealogy Ancourt, Abbé d,’ 216n60 Angelou, Maya, 25 Anglo-American immigrants. See immigrants , Anglo-American Anglo-Americans as “other.” See “other”: Anglo-Americans as Anzaldúa, Gloria, 1, 25, 56, 198–99, 217n2 Apaches, 125, 127, 128, 202n15 apologies, 209n5 Arizona-Sonora border region,3,5, 38,60–67,82–87,129–32,156–60; history,60,83,85,115–19,209n77, 212n81 Armijo,Manuel,112,113 Arreola,Daniel,213n91 Arteago,Alfred,105 Arte Público Press,35,204–5n65 aspectualization,74 assimilation,cultural.See cultural assimilation assimilation (descriptive operation), 74–75,85 audience,35,36,39,43,144 Augustine,Saint,Bishop of Hippo,12, 13,18 authorizing discourse,157 Autobiographical Acts (Bruss),20 autobiographical genres.See genres, autobiographical Autobiographical Voices (Lionnet),24 Autobiographics:A Feminist Theory of Women’s Self-Representation (Gilmore),24 autobiography,border.See“border autobiography ” autobiography,confessional.See confessional autobiography autobiography as performance.See performance ,autobiography as autodiegetic narrator,46,206n26 autogynography,23 “automitografía”(Velasco),27 autonomy,women’s.See women’s autonomy Aztecs,125,127,128,202n15 Bacon,Leonard Woolsey,150 Bakhtin,Mikhail,19–20,45,46,175,192, 207n39 barbed-wire fence movement,212n80 Barker,Eugene C.,36 Barrio Boy (Galarza),208n50 barrios,40–41,67–74,88–91,119–22, 132–35,161–65,184–89,194,195; Arreola on,213n91;Galarza on, 208n50 Barthes,Roland,44,45 basil,149 Battle of San Pascual,104 A Beautiful, Cruel Country (WilburCruce ),3,4,38–39,72,73,189,195, 197;classification of,207n39;cultural memory in,98;description in,82–87, 91;habitus in,156–60;history in, 115–19;imaginary formations in, 179–84;narrative in,60–67;“other” in,122,128–32 Beauvoir,Simone de,53 Benstock,Shari,23–24 Benveniste,Émile,43 230 index Bhabha,Homi,210n10 bildungsroman,46,205n70,207n39 Boas,Franz,204n62 bookishness,68–69,188,198,208n50 “border autobiography,”28–35,200 Borderlands/La Frontera (Anzaldúa), 217n2 boundaries and borders,7,96–97,200; crossing of,32,97;terminology, 209–10n7;Texas–Mexico,110,118, 210–11n33.See also“border autobiography ” Bourdieu,Pierre,138,154,155,156–57, 165;on“cultural field,”143–44;on “doxa,”146;on habitus, 144–45,158, 195,204n58,214n20 Bruce-Novoa,Juan,201n1,205n70, 207n39,216n58 Bruss,Elizabeth,20,144–45 CahuengaTreaty.SeeTreaty of Cahuenga California,2,39–41,211n33;gold discovery ,114;under Mexico,103–4;US acquisition,5,105.See also Pacoima, California Californios,104 Calle Hoyt (Ponce),40 Canícula (Cantú),25,26,200,217n2 canon,1,3,18,30,33,95,138 Cantú,Norma,1,25,26,67,200,217n2 Cardinal,Marie,25 Castillo,Ana,27 Catholic Church,95,102;discursive references to,117;in González,145–49, 150–51,153–54,155,165;in Ponce, 134,161,164–65,186;in WilburCruce ,130,157–58 Chacon,Rafael,2,26 “Chicano”(word),201n1 Chicano period (Hispanic literature),2, 201n4,202n14,217n2 Chicano Narrative (Saldívar),138 Chodorow,Nancy,23,51–52 Christian rites and rituals.See rites and rituals,Christian Christmas Eve.See Nochebuena chronotope,7,46,72,192;in González, 50;in Jaramillo,55,59,60;in Ponce, 67,68,69,70;in Wilbur-Cruce,61, 63,66 Civil War,107,109 Cixous,Hélène,190 class consciousness,14 clothing:gendered,63,151,158,180, 186,187;of Indians,130,131,159; sign of rank,119,214n117.See also washing and ironing of shirts collective identity.See communal identity collective memory.See cultural memory colonialism,27,130 colonizadores, 36,47,76,77,107 colonization,101,105,106,109,113, 137,212n69 colonizers and explorers,Spanish.See explorers and colonizers,Spanish communal identity,27,34,40,42.See also national identity Compan,Magali,75 compliance of women.See women’s subjugation and submissiveness Condé,Maryse,25 confessional autobiography,16,27 Confessions (Augustine),13 conquistadors,118–19,130 consciousness,14,15,16,18,22,25;collective ,144;Derrida on,19.See also unconscious The Contested Homeland, 80 control of discourse.See discourse: production and control Corse,Sarah M.,144 Cortés,Hernán,53,80,111,127,128 cowboys and ranch hands.See vaqueros Cruz Blanca,2 cultural assimilation,155 “cultural field”(Bourdieu),138,143–44...

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