In Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest Rosaura Sanchez and Beatrice Pita examine literary representations of settler colonial land enclosure and dispossession in the history of New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Sanchez and Pita analyze a range of Chicano/a and Native American novels, films, short stories, and other cultural artifacts from the eighteenth century to the present, showing how Chicano/a works often celebrate an idealized colonial Spanish past as a way to counter stereotypes of Mexican and Indigenous racial and ethnic inferiority. As they demonstrate, these texts often erase the participation of Spanish and Mexican settlers in the dispossession of Indigenous lands. Foregrounding the relationship between literature and settler colonialism, they consider how literary representations of land are manipulated and redefined in ways that point to the changing practices of dispossession. In so doing, Sanchez and Pita prompt critics to reconsider the role of settler colonialism in the deep history of the United States and how spatial and discursive violence are always correlated.

The stories in this bilingual collection portray the everyday lives of a cross-section of Chicano men and women in the contemporary U.S. Here are workers living in the chaparral around the San Diego border with Mexico, battered wives, farmworkers, divorced women rebuilding their lives, a traveling salesman, and conflicted academics. In direct and hard-edged prose, the author gives voice to the disenfranchised and alienated. The narrative perspective changes from story to story, portraying the experiences of what could become classic characters in Chicana fiction. "S nchez brilliantly and sensitively portrays the hard life of undocumented Mexican men and women working in the United States. She is a masterful storyteller able to weave suspense from the first to the last sentence. Written with the style reminiscent of Tomas Rivera and Juan Rulfo, each narrative conveys a message difficult to forget."--Mar a Herrera Sobek, University of California, Santa Barbara "S nchez is a storyteller, interweaving voices at once unheard or unspoken. The characters in these stories range from the disenfranchised to Chicano/a academics, but all struggle to have their stories told."--Helena Viramontes

The "CAMINANDO 1-2-3" series provides Spanish language students with in-depth review and practice of intermediate-level grammar, as well as multiple opportunities for vocabulary development. Intended as a student workbook to complement the instructor's classroom presentation and oral practice, "CAMINANDO" also includes sample responses to odd-numbered exercises to aid in students' self-correction and therefore deeper understanding of the language.
Developed by two professors, using a classroom-tested approach, the "CAMINANDO 1" workbook is an ideal companion to any level one Intermediate Spanish language classroom.
Professor Rosaura Sanchez, Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin (Spanish Linguistics) teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Professor Beatrice Pita, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego (Literature) teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

The "CAMINANDO 1-2-3" series provides Spanish language students with in-depth review and practice of intermediate-level grammar, as well as multiple opportunities for vocabulary development. Intended as a student workbook to complement the instructor's classroom presentation and oral practice, "CAMINANDO" also includes sample responses to odd-numbered exercises to aid in students' self-correction and therefore deeper understanding of the language.
Developed by two professors, using a classroom-tested approach, the "CAMINANDO 2" workbook is an ideal companion to any level two Intermediate Spanish language classroom.
Professor Rosaura Sanchez, Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin (Spanish Linguistics) teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Professor Beatrice Pita, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego (Literature) teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

The "CAMINANDO 1-2-3" series provides Spanish language students with in-depth review and practice of intermediate-level grammar, as well as multiple opportunities for vocabulary development. Intended as a student workbook to complement the instructor's classroom presentation and oral practice, "CAMINANDO" also includes sample responses to odd-numbered exercises to aid in students' self-correction and therefore deeper understanding of the language.
Developed by two professors, using a classroom-tested approach, the "CAMINANDO 3" workbook is an ideal companion to any level three Intermediate Spanish language classroom.
Professor Rosaura Sanchez, Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin (Spanish Linguistics) teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Professor Beatrice Pita, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego (Literature) teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.