Rewriting North American Broders in Chicano and Chichana Narrative

• Applicant: Privatdozentin Dr. Monika Kaup
• Subject Area: European and American Literary and Cultural Studies
• Term: from 2000 to 2001
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5273510

How does Chicanos/a Studies reconceptualize North American Studies? Why do borders and borderlands figure so prominently in Chicano/a narrative and criticism?Rewritung North American Borders in Chicano Narrative discusses three aspects of the Mexican American experience: the history of native origins in the borderlands, the (im)migrant experience, and the Chicana expirience. They all produce narratives derived from the U.S.-Mexico border in its physical, political, psychological, and imaginative dimensions, and each (re)writes a distinct cultural poetics of that key site. A. comprehensive study of Chicano/a narrative since the 1960c, the book presents theory combined with sensitive and detailed readings of most major (and many minor) Chicana and Chicano writers, including Gloria Anzaldúa, Norma Cantú, Ana Castilli, Sandra Disneros, Ernesto Galarza, Rolando Hinojosa, Rubén Martínez, Cherríe Moraga, Alejandro Morales, Américo Paredes, Estela Portillo Trambley, Tomás Rivere, Richard Rodriguez, José Villareal, Victor Villasenor, and others.

• DFG Programme: Publication Grants