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Table of Contents: “…I might get punished": Misotheism and Self-Creation in Tomás Rivera's ... And the Earth Did Not Devour Him /…”
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Table of Contents: “…Time as a structural device in Tomás Rivera's "y no se lo tragó la tierra" /…”

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Table of Contents: “…Alvarez -- Julia de Burgos -- Desi Arnaz -- César Estrada Chávez -- Helen Rodriguez-Trias -- Dolores Huerra -- Jaime Alfonso Escalante -- Rita Moreno -- Roberto Clemente -- Tomás Rivera -- Joan Baez -- Judith F. Baca -- Sonia Sotomayor -- Ellen Ochoa -- Hero Street U.S.A. -- Sestina for Victoria Leigh Soto.…”

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Table of Contents: “…"The American Congo" and the national symbolic -- Negotiating cultural memory in the aftermath of the Mexican-American war : nineteenth-century Mexican American testimonials and The squatter and the don -- Reading the corpus delicti : Tomás Rivera's Earth and the Chicano body in the public sphere -- The institutionalization of Latino literature in the academy : Cabeza de Vaca's Castaways and the crisis of legitimation -- Practices of freedom : the body re-membered in contemporary Latino writing -- Democracy's graveyard : dead citizenship and the Latino body.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The open totality of thresholds -- A history of borderland routes -- A literary blossoming -- Disillusion and defiance in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the Don -- The appropriate(d) hero: Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez -- Exercises in liminality: Tomás Rivera's ...And the earth did not devour him -- The dialogic mind: the education of Richard Rodriguez -- The meaning of place in Helena María Viramontes' Under the feet of Jesus -- The threshold--Benjamin Alire Sáenz' Carry me like water -- The aesthetics of time in Chicano literature.…”