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Silver Medalist at the 24th International Latino Book Awards
Alejandro Morales is a pioneer of Chicana and Chicano literature and the author of groundbreaking works including The Brick People, The Rag Doll Plagues, and River of Angels. His work, often experimental, was one of the first to depict harsh urban realities in the barrios—a break from much of the Chicana and Chicano fiction that had been published previously. Morales' relentless work has grown over the decades into a veritable menagerie of cultural testimonies, fantastic counterhistories, magical realism, challenging metanarratives, and flesh-and-blood aesthetic innovation. The fourteen essays included in this compendium examine Morales' novels and short stories. The editors also include a critical introduction; an interview between Morales, the editors, and fellow author Daniel Olivas; and a new comprehensive bibliography of Morales' writings and works about him—books, articles, book reviews, online resources, and dissertations. A Critical Collection on Alejandro Morales: Forging an Alternative Chicano Fiction is a must-read for understanding and appreciating Morales' work in particular and Chicana and Chicano literature in general.
Contents
Introduction: Alejandro Morales: An Errant Maverick Faces the Literary Canon and History Marc García-Martínez and Francisco A. Lomelí
Chapter One. Submersion, Suffocation, and Entombment of the Mexican and Immigrant Body in River of Angels—Probing Figurations of Violence and Isolation Marc García-Martínez
Chapter Two. The Analogous Correspondence of an Extreme Poetics between Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and Alejandro Morales' Barrio on the Edge Francisco A. Lomelí
Chapter Three. Alejandro Morales' The Captain of All These Men of Death and Philip Roth's Nemesis: Parallels and Contrasts Stephen Miller
Chapter Four. Tropes of Ecothinking and the Spatial Imaginary in Alejandro Morales' River of Angels Sophia Emmanouilidou
Chapter Five. History, Spatial Justice, and the Esperpento in Alejandro Morales' Pequeña nación Jesús Rosales
Chapter Six. Heterotopia and the Emergence of the Modern Ilusa in Waiting to Happen Margarita López López
Chapter Seven. City History and Space Politics: Los Angeles in Morales' River of Angels Baojie Li
Chapter Eight. Pequeña nación: Big (Feminist) Revolution Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo
Chapter Nine. Bodies in Motion in The Place of the White Heron, Volume Two of the Heterotopian Trilogy: A Glance through the Panopticon Adam Spires
Chapter Ten. Race, Space, and Magical Realism in The Brick People and River of Angels Adina Ciugureanu
Chapter Eleven. Mestizaje, Cultural Identity, and Environmental Degradation in Alejandro Morales' The Rag Doll Plagues Manuel M. Martín Rodríguez
Chapter Twelve. Translation as Rewriting and Resituating: The Two English Versions of Caras viejas y vino nuevo by Alejandro Morales Elena Errico
Chapter Thirteen. History and Fiction in Alejandro Morales' Narratives Luis Leal
Chapter Fourteen. Epidemics, Epistemophilia, and Racism: Ecological Literary Criticism and The Rag Doll Plagues María Herrera-Sobek
Chapter Fifteen. A Dialogue with the Writer Alejandro Morales Francisco Lomelí, Marc García-Martínez, and Daniel Olivas
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