Critical Storytelling from the Borderlands: En La Línea

Book Overview

From this set of critical stories emerges a timely confession from marginalized imagined communities at the physical and metaphorical Mexican-American border. These hybrid storytellers create a multivalence of experiences and genres. Composers of this ground-breaking collection draw readers into an affective connection with the borderlands, offering critical examinations of legal status, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, social class, family, and health. Additionally, creative representations across genres explore notions of geography, vulnerability, suffering, trauma, pain as well as joy, healing, and love. By posing questions about loss of innocence, they incite new literary and visual spaces for fusing together fragments of the remains of land, body, and/or being, all the while creating a site of fresh confessions where critical stories are illuminated collages assembled together from within la l nea.

Contributors are: Kiri Avelar, Irving Ayala, Carmella J. Braniger, Roxana Fragoso Carrillo, Marisa V. Cervantes, Guadalupe Chavez, Julio Enr quez-Ornelas, Liliana Conlisk Gallegos, Ver nica Gaona, Andrea G mez, Filiberto Mares Hern ndez, V ctor M. Mac as-Gonz lez, Carol Mariano, Ana Silvia Monz n Monterroso, Juana Moriel-Payne, Rachel Neff, Jumko Ogata-Aguilar, Jos Olivarez, Isabela Ortega, Paul Pedroza, Jorge Omar Ram rez Pimienta, Raphaella Prange, Felipe Quetzalcoatl Quintanilla, Erica Reyes, Fidel Garc a Reyes, Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana and Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004521135
• ISBN13: 9789004521131
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"