Life in search of readers reading (in) Chicano/a literature /

Martin-Rodriguez, Manuel M.

Life in search of readers reading (in) Chicano/a literature / [electronic resource] : Manuel M. Martin-Rodriguez. - 1st ed. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2003. - vii, 232 p.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Life in search of readers : the Quinto Sol generation and the creation of a Chicano/a readership -- Characters as readers and as writers : a metaliterary reflection on the reading process -- (En)gendering the reader : Chicana literature and its implied audience -- Querido reader : linguistic and marketing strategies for addressing a multicultural readership -- Reading (in) the past : textual recovery and the history of (reading) Chicano/a literature.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780826333629 (electronic bk.)




American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.
American literature--Mexican influences.
Mexican Americans--Intellectual life.
Authors and readers--United States.
Books and reading--United States.
Books and reading in literature.
Mexican Americans in literature.


Electronic books.

PS153.M4 / M365 2003

810.9/86872