Threshold time : passage of crisis in Chicano literature / Lene M. Johannessen.

Author/creator Johannessen, Lene
Format Book
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.
Description204 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects
American literature--Mexican American authors. --History and criticism.

SeriesCosterus ; new ser., v. 173
Costerus new ser., v. 173. ^A110591
Contents The open totality of thresholds -- A history of borderland routes -- A literary blossoming -- Disillusion and defiance in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the Don -- The appropriate(d) hero: Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez -- Exercises in liminality: Tomás Rivera's ...And the earth did not devour him -- The dialogic mind: the education of Richard Rodriguez -- The meaning of place in Helena María Viramontes' Under the feet of Jesus -- The threshold--Benjamin Alire Sáenz' Carry me like water -- The aesthetics of time in Chicano literature.
Local noteFOR JOYNER LIBRARY HOLDINGS OF THE SERIES, COSTERUS, SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER QE1 .C66.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index.
Genre/formDissertations, Academic.
ISBN9789042023321 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9042023325

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