From the Publisher
“With Gender and Place in Chicana/o Literature: Critical Regionalism and the Mexican American Southwest, Melina Vizcaino-Alemán critically intervenes in the scholarly debates surrounding transnationalist and critical regionalist methodologies as these have impacted Chicana/o literary studies. Her sustained focus upon the dynamics of gender, race, and place enables a major reexamination of twentieth-century writers, who have been generally identified as ‘local color,’ without flattening the transnational dimensions of Chicana/o aesthetic production within the US-Mexico borderlands.” (John Morán González, Director of the Mexican American Studies Center and Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, USA)
“Analyzing key texts across genres, locales, and time periods, Melina Vizcaíno-Alemán discredits the minimization of Chicana/o aesthetics for the sake of broader political aims and discerns instead the political efficacy of critical regionalist aesthetics on issues of gender, class, and place. This innovative study sheds new light on staid interpretations of feminine passivity to reveal the impact Chicana women have and have had in determining the social value of space, gesture, and language.” (Stephanie Fetta, Assistant Professor of Spanish, College of Arts & Sciences, Syracuse University, USA)
“Drawing upon a wide range of critical sources in Chicana and Chicano literary theory —including important studies by Tey Diana Rebolledo, Mary Pat Brady, Ramón Saldívar, Genaro Padilla, and José Limón— Melina Vizcaíno-Alemán presents a compelling argument for a rethinking of critical regionalism as a tool for understanding the development of Chicana/o cultural production.” (Santiago R. Vaquera-Vásquez, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of New Mexico, USA)
