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Synecdochic Life Writing in Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land |
Chapter 3: Wounding, Survival, and Authorship in William Kittredge’s Hole in the Sky: A Memoir and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller |
Breaking Down the Mythology of Ownership: Confession and Disempowerment in Hole in the Sky: A Memoir |
The Web of Survival: Multiform Autobiography as Resistance in Storyteller |
Chapter 4: “Like all emigrants caught between here and there”: Crossing Borders in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo |
Weaving Collective Identities |
Challenging Generic Boundaries |
Reworking Gender Relations |
Revising Rigid Notions of Race |
Destabilizing the Geographic Nation |
Reading Literature as History |
Borderland Dislocations in the New West |
Conclusion: Multiform Narratives and the Rewriting of History |
Notes |
Bibliography |
Index |