Bordering Fires - The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicana and Chicano Literature (Paperback)

As the descendants of Mexican immigrants have settled throughout the United States, a great literature has emerged, but its correspondances with the literature of Mexico have gone largely unobserved. In "Bordering Fires," the first anthology to combine writing from both sides of the Mexican-U.S. border, Cristina Garc'a presents a richly diverse cross-cultural conversation. Beginning with Mexican masters such as Alfonso Reyes and Juan Rulfo, Garc'a highlights historic voices such as "the godfather of Chicano literature" Rudolfo Anaya, and Gloria Anzaldoea, who made a powerful case for language that reflects bicultural experience. From the fierce evocations of Chicano reality in Jimmy Santiago Baca's Poem IX to the breathtaking images of identity in Coral Bracho's poem "Fish of Fleeting Skin," from the work of Carlos Fuentes to Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo to Octavio Paz, this landmark collection of fiction, essays, and poetry offers an exhilarating new vantage point on our continent-and on the best of contemporary literature.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2006
First published:	November 2006
Authors:	Cristina Garcia
Dimensions:	202 x 133 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-4000-7718-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories Promotions
LSN:	1-4000-7718-4
Barcode:	9781400077182

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