Contents
Introduction: The Day I Was Luis Leal by Ilan Stavans
Theorizing Aztlán
1. In Search of Aztlán
2. A Historical Perspective
3. The Problem of Identifying Chicano Literature
4. Into the Labyrinth
5. Truth-Telling Tongues
6. Lo real maravilloso in Nuevo México
7. The Spanish-Language Press
8. El paso y la huella
Colonials and Decimonónicos
9. Bernardo de Balbuena
10. Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá
11. La Conquistadora
12.Félix Varela
13. Miguel Antonio Otero
Profiles of the Twentieth Century and Beyond
14. Mariano Azuela
15. María Cristina Mena
16. José Rubén Romero
17. Pedro Henríquez Ureña
18. Octavio Paz
19. Juan Rulfo
20. Carlos Fuentes21. José A. Montoya
22. Tomás Rivera
23. Américo Paredes
24. Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
25. Rudolfo Anaya
26. Sandra Cisneros
North = South
27. La Malinche
28. Other Female Archetypes
29. Mexico’s Centrifugal Culture
30. Aspects of the Novel
31.Magical Realism
32. African Influences
33. Tlatelolco, Tlatelolco
34. The Ugly American
35. Octavio Paz and the Chicano
36. Mirror, Mirror
37. Beyond Myths and Borders
Index