Key topics: Tomás Rivera, ...y no se lo tragó la tierra — two chapters: Chicano experience, migrant farmworker life, episodic structure, oral tradition, code-switching, Sabine Ulibarrí, 'Mi caballo mago' — New Mexico Hispano identity, the cuento tradition, nature and childhood memory, lyrical prose style, Rosa Montero, 'Como la vida misma' — contemporary Spanish fiction, metafiction, the nature of storytelling, gender dynamics (added in most recent CED revision), Chicanx literary identity: negotiating cultural heritage, language politics, and the U.S. Southwest landscape, Code-switching and bilingualism as literary devices in U.S. Hispanic literature, The cuentista tradition: oral narrative conventions adapted to written literary prose, Contemporary Spanish narrative: post-Franco cultural production and the self-reflexive short story.
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