A Critical Collection on Alejandro Morales: Forging an Alternative Chicano Fiction

Introduction: Alejandro Morales: An Errant Maverick Faces the Literary Canon and History
Marc García-Martínez and Francisco A. Lomelí

Chapter One. Submersion, Suffocation, and Entombment of the Mexican and Immigrant Body in River of Angels--Probing Figurations of Violence and Isolation
Marc García-Martínez
Chapter Two. The Analogous Correspondence of an Extreme Poetics between Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and Alejandro Morales' Barrio on the Edge
Francisco A. Lomelí
Chapter Three. Alejandro Morales' The Captain of All These Men of Death and Philip Roth's Nemesis: Parallels and Contrasts
Stephen Miller
Chapter Four. Tropes of Ecothinking and the Spatial Imaginary in Alejandro Morales' River of Angels
Sophia Emmanouilidou
Chapter Five. History, Spatial Justice, and the Esperpento in Alejandro Morales' Pequeña nación
Jesús Rosales
Chapter Six. Heterotopia and the Emergence of the Modern Ilusa in Waiting to Happen
Margarita López López
Chapter Seven. City History and Space Politics: Los Angeles in Morales' River of Angels
Baojie Li
Chapter Eight. Pequeña nación: Big (Feminist) Revolution
Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo
Chapter Nine. Bodies in Motion in The Place of the White Heron, Volume Two of the Heterotopian Trilogy: A Glance through the Panopticon
Adam Spires
Chapter Ten. Race, Space, and Magical Realism in The Brick People and River of Angels
Adina Ciugureanu
Chapter Eleven. Mestizaje, Cultural Identity, and Environmental Degradation in Alejandro Morales' The Rag Doll Plagues
Manuel M. Martín Rodríguez
Chapter Twelve. Translation as Rewriting and Resituating: The Two English Versions of Caras viejas y vino nuevo by Alejandro Morales
Elena Errico
Chapter Thirteen. History and Fiction in Alejandro Morales' Narratives
Luis Leal
Chapter Fourteen. Epidemics, Epistemophilia, and Racism: Ecological Literary Criticism and The Rag Doll Plagues
María Herrera-Sobek
Chapter Fifteen. A Dialogue with the Writer Alejandro Morales
Francisco Lomelí, Marc García-Martínez, and Daniel Olivas

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