Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicana and Chicano Literature
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As the descendants of Mexican immigrants have settled throughout the United States, a great literature has emerged, but its correspondances with the literature of Mexico have gone largely unobserved. In Bordering Fires, the first anthology to combine writing from both sides of the Mexican-U.S. border, Cristina Garc'a presents a richly diverse cross-cultural conversation. Beginning with Mexican masters such as Alfonso Reyes and Juan Rulfo, Garc'a highlights historic voices such as "the godfather of Chicano literature" Rudolfo Anaya, and Gloria Anzaldoea, who made a powerful case for language that reflects bicultural experience. From the fierce evocations of Chicano reality in Jimmy Santiago Baca's Poem IX to the breathtaking images of identity in Coral Bracho's poem "Fish of Fleeting Skin," from the work of Carlos Fuentes to Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo to Octavio Paz, this landmark collection of fiction, essays, and poetry offers an exhilarating new vantage point on our continent-and on the best of contemporary literature.
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Contents
Prelude:
Excerpt from The use of thought / Samuel Ramos
Early influences:
Major Aranda's hand / Alfonso Reyes
My cousin Agueda, and In the wet shadows / Ramon Lopez Velarde
Excerpt from Pedro Paramo / Juan Rulfo
L.A. nocturne : the angels / Xavier Villaurrutia
Chicano/a voices I:
How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldua
India / Richard Rodriguez
Meditations on the South Valley: Poem IX / Jimmy Santiago Baca
B. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca / Rudolfo Anaya
Contemporary Mexican voices:
Excerpt from The death of Artemio Cruz / Carlos Fuentes
Introduction from Here's to you, Jesusa! / Elena Poniatowska
The day of the dead, and I speak of the city / Octavio Paz
Excerpt from The book of lamentations / Rosario Castellanos
Chicano/a voices 2:
Daddy with Chesterfields in a rolled up sleeve / Ana Castillo
Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros
Maria de Covina / Dagoberto Gilb
Excerpt from Crossing over : a Mexican family on the migrant trail / Ruben Martinez
New departures:
Hagiography of the apostate / Ignacio Padilla
Aunt Leonor, and Aunt Natalia / Angeles Mastretta
Identity hour or, What photos would you take of the endless city / Carlos Monsivais
Fish of fleeting skin / Coral Bracho
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