Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference
Chicano Narrative is an examination of representative aspects of Mexican American narrative forms – including the novel, short story, narrative verse, and autobiography – that have largely been excluded from the canon of American literature.
In struggling for the retention of cultural integrity and unity, the Mexican American communities of the American Southwest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries produced a significant body of literary texts. Chicano Narrative is an examination of representative aspects of Mexican American narrative forms – including the novel, short story, narrative verse, and autobiography – that have largely been excluded from the canon of American literature.
No longer a regional literature, Chicano narrative is more than a simple mirror of the life and folklore of a heretofore invisible segment of American society. It is a part of American literature and merits expanded and continued exploration.
