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Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe and North and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide answers to the environmental crisis. Diverse ecocritical perspectives add new meaning to the novels, short stories, drama, poetry, films, and documentaries analyzed in this timely and engaged collection. Elena Avils, University of New Mexico, USA Roberto Ayala, University of California, Irvine, USA Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe, Michel de Montaigne University, France Manuel Broncano Rodrguez, Texas A&M International University, USA Norma Cant, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Elisabetta Careri, English and Spanish teacher and translator Mara Jess Castro Dopacio, independent scholar Berta Delgado Melgosa, independent scholar Sophia Emmanouilidou, Greek Ministry of Education, Greece Carmen Flys Junquera, University of Alcal de Henares, Spain Yolanda Godsey, University of Houston, USA Jose Antonio Gurpegui Palacios, University of Alcal de Henares, Spain Mara Lpez Ponz, University of Salamanca, Spain Ellen McCracken, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Carmen Melchor iguez, independent scholar Cecilia Montes-Alcal, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Tey Diana Rebolledo; University of New Mexico, USA Mara Laura Spoturno, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina PART I: THE LANDSCAPE IN THE WORK OF SANDRA CISNEROS 1. Home, Streets, Nature: Esperanza’s Itineraries in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street ; Elisabetta Careri, 2. Harvesting a Chicana Cultural Landscape: The Manipulation in Sandra Cisneros’ ‘Women Hollering Creek’; Elena Avils 3. Perfomance and Linguistic Spectacle in Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo and Junot Daz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ; Ellen McCracken 4. Thresholds of Writing: Text and Paratext in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo or Puro Cuento ; Maria Laura Spoturno PART II: THE LANDSCAPE OF THE FEMALE BODY 5. Chicana Poetry:Writing the Feminine into the Landscape; Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe 6. Reading Los Angeles ‘Costureras ‘ in the Landscape of Josefina Lpez’s Real Women Have Curves ; Yolanda Godsey 7. Changing Landscapes in Chicano Countryside; CarmenMelchor Iiguez and Mara Jess Perea Villena PART III: LANDSCAPES OF TRAUMA 8. Memory and Trauma: Chicano Autobiographies and The Vietnam War; Berta Delgado 9. Barrio Vistas: Urban Milieu and Cultural Visibility in Mario Surez’s Short Story ‘Tuscon, Arizona: El Hoyo’; Sophia Emmanouilidou 10. ‘We Are All Serafina’s Children:’ Racial Landscapes in Rudolfo Anaya; Manuel Broncano Rodrguez 11. Landscaping a Poetics of Belonging: Maps of the imagination in Chicana/o Literature; Tey Diana Rebolledo 12. Devotion and Transnationalism: Aimultaneous Guadalupan Landscapes; Mara Jess Castro Dopacio PART IV: ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM 13. The Space of Disease in Alejandro Morales’s The Captain of All These Men of Death ; Roberto Ayala 14. Rudolfo Anaya’s Shifting Sense of Place; Carmen Flys Junquera PART V: LANDSCAPES OF LANGUAGE, REFLECTIONS ON CODESWITCHING AND THE BORDER 15. Sitio y lengua: Chicana Third Space Feminist Theory; Norma Elia Cant 16. ‘In Spanish, Mi Hermano, in Spanish’: Is Good to Speak in Espaol in USA; Jos Antonio Gurpegui Palacios 17. (Too) Changing Landscapes : The Translation of US-Hispanic Literature into Spanish; Mara Lpez Ponz 18. Writing on the Border: English y Espaol Tambin; Cecilia Montes-Alcal
