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BL
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1040085
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b794455
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| Main Entry
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Johannessen, Lene.
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| Title & Author
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Threshold time : : passage of crisis in Chicano literature /\ Lene M. Johannessen.
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| Publication Statement
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Amsterdam ;New York :: Rodopi,, 2008.
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| Series Statement
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Costerus ;; new ser., v. 173
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1 online resource (204 pages).
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| ISBN
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1435616014
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: 9401205337
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: 9781435616011
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: 9789401205337
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9042023325
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9789042023321
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197) and index.
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| Contents
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Threshold Time Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION. The Open Totality of Thresholds; CHAPTER I.A History of Borderland Routes; CHAPTER II. A Literary Blossoming; CHAPTER III. Disillusion and Defiance in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don; CHAPTER IV. The Appropriate(d) Hero: Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez; CHAPTER V. Exercises in Liminality: Tomás Rivera's ... And the Earth Did not Devour Him; CHAPTER VI. The Dialogic Mind: The Education of Richard Rodriguez.
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| Abstract
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Threshold Time provides an introductory survey of the cultural, social and political history of Mexican American and Chicano literature, as well as new in-depth analyses of a selection of works that between them span a hundred years of this particular branch of American literature. The book begins its explorations of the "passage of crisis" with Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don, continues with Americo Paredes' George Washington Gómez, Tomás Rivera's ... And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory, and ends with Helena María Viramontes' Under t.
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American literature-- Mexican American authors-- History and criticism.
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American literature-- Mexican American authors.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/86872
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| LC Classification
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PS153.M4J64 2008eb
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