a ISBN 0-8263-1712X (pbk.-)

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number PS508.M4

b Item number C52 1996

a Dewey Classification 810.9/86872

a Title Chicana creativity and criticism :

b Remainder of title new frontiers in American Literature /

c Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Mar�Herrera-Sobek & Helena Mar�Viramontes.

h Medium BOOK

a Title proper/short title New frontiers in American Literature

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Albuquerque :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc University of New Mexico Press;

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1996.

a Extent x, 289 p. ;

c Dimensions 24 cm.

a General note Revised edition of a collection of poetry, prose, and essays originally given at a conference held Apr. 22, 1987 at the University of California, Irvine, sponsored by the Mexico/Chicano Program of the university.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-286).

a Formatted contents note Lorna Dee Cervantes -- First Beating -- Astro-no-mia -- Bananas -- Bird Ave -- Lucha Corpi -- Romance Negro -- Invernario -- Recuerdo Intimo -- Fuga -- Cancion de Invierno -- Indocumentada Angustia -- Sonata a Dos Voces -- Llueve -- Evangelina Vigil-Pinon -- The Parting -- In Its Absence -- The Giving -- Spillage -- Equinox -- Hacia un Invierno -- Denise Chavez -- La Pesadez -- I Am Your Mary Magdalene -- This River's Praying Place -- Tears -- Cloud -- Artery of Land -- Silver Ingots of Desire -- The Study -- Starflash -- Saying "Oh No" -- Everything You Are Is Teeth -- Cuckoo Death Chime -- Door -- Chekhov Green Love -- The State of My Inquietude -- The Feeling of Going On -- This Thin Light -- Two Butterflies -- Naomi Quinonez -- Ultima II True Blue Eye Shadow of the Past -- The Photograph -- Spousal Rape -- Ay que Maria Felix (or Maria Was No Virgin) -- La Diosa in Every Woman -- Gloria Enedina Alvarez -- Acordeon [Accordion] -- Sin Complicaciones [Without Complications] -- Elegir [Choice] -- The Word and the Gift -- Vuelvo y no recuerdo [I Return and Don't Remember] -- Hueso de la noche [Night Bone] -- Deaf / Sorda -- De Viaje / On a Trip -- The Day It Began [El dia que inicio] -- Spark / Chispa -- Fallen Comrade, There Is No Mourning You -- Still Dreams -- Contrastes / Contrasts -- Vende Futuro [Sells the Future] -- Totem / La siempre firme [Totem / The Always Firm] -- Alma E. Cervantes -- Piquetitos of Love -- Born Again Christian -- Had I Ironed Your Shirt -- Harta -- A Toast -- The Roots of Chicana Urban Planners -- Reflections of 'La Vieja' -- In My Dreams -- Novena Narrativas y Ofrendas Nuevomexicanas / Denise Chavez -- Miss Clairol / Helena Maria Viramontes -- Andrea / Roberta Fernandez -- Hearts / Sheila Ortiz Taylor -- The Politics of Poetics: Or, What Am I, A Critic, Doing in This Text Anyhow? / Tey Diana Rebolledo -- Chicana Literature from a Chicana Feminist Perspective / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano -- Making 'Familia' From Scratch: Split Subjectivities in the Work of Helena Maria Viramontes and Cherrie Moraga / Norma Alarcon -- Sandra Cisneros' 'The House on Mango Street' and the Poetics of Space / Julian Olivares -- The Politics of Rape: Sexual Transgression in Chicana Fiction / Maria Herrera-Sobek -- Enedina Casarez Vasquez -- Maricela Dreams -- My Mother's Altar -- Carmen Lomas Garza -- Tuna de Nopal/Pedacito de mi Corazon -- Curandera Barriendo el Susto -- Three Eagles Flying / Laura Aguilar -- Black Legs / Yreina Cervantez.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American literature

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American literature

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American literature

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American literature

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American literature

y Chronological subdivision 20th century

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American literature

y Chronological subdivision 20th century

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mexican American women

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Women and literature

y Chronological subdivision 20th century

a Personal name Herrera-Sobek, María.

a Personal name Viramontes, Helena Maria,

d Dates associated with a name 1954-