{"product_id":"bordering-fires-cristina-garca-9781400077182","title":"Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano\/A Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A marvelous introduction to some of the most luminous and illuminating voices to be found in the Chicano\/a and Mexican literary traditions, offering a fascinating and resonant dialogue among them.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Rafael P駻ez-Torres, Professor of American Literature and Chicano Studies, UCLA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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 \u003ci\u003eBordering Fires\u003c\/i\u003e, the first anthology to combine writing from both sides of the Mexican-U.S. border, Cristina Garc? presents a richly diverse cross-cultural conversation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Beginning with Mexican masters such as Alfonso Reyes and Juan Rulfo, Garc? 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cristina Garc?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1400077184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400077182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.38w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2006 pg. 58\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2006 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2007 pg. 150","brand":"Cristina Garc?","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44080294953215,"sku":"9781400077182","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_64eefcd8-cfed-431f-94c0-47038335303e.jpg?v=1685486019","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bordering-fires-cristina-garca-9781400077182","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}