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Beyond bounds : cross-cultural essays on Anglo, American Indian, and Chicano literature

Author: Robert Gish
Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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A healthy disrespect for cultural exclusiveness marks the essays collected here, a series of appreciations and explications of writers not ordinarily considered together. As the author notes in his introduction, his own biography and career are reflected in this assemblage. An Anglo of mixed Irish, German, and American Indian heritage who grew up in a Hispanic neighborhood in Albuquerque, Gish has always known that
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Gish, Robert.
Beyond bounds.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1996
(OCoLC)656888615
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Gish
ISBN: 0826317154 9780826317155
OCLC Number: 33133469
Description: xiv, 170 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Charles F. Lummis and Isleta Pueblo --
Erna Fergusson's travels toward exoticism --
Harvey Fergusson's legacy --
Witter Bynner, poet in adobia --
The word medicine of James Welch --
Listening to Ray A. Young Bear --
La Llorona, magic realism, and the frontier --
Curanderismo and witchery in the fiction of Rudolfo A. Anaya --
America as Aztlán : landscape, myth, and ethnicity in Rudolfo Anaya's Heart of Aztlán and Alburquerque, and Jimmy Santiago Baca's Martín and Meditations on the South Valley --
Jimmy Santiago Baca : writing the borderlands of ethnic and cultural crisis.
Responsibility: Robert Franklin Gish.

Abstract:

A healthy disrespect for cultural exclusiveness marks the essays collected here, a series of appreciations and explications of writers not ordinarily considered together. As the author notes in his introduction, his own biography and career are reflected in this assemblage. An Anglo of mixed Irish, German, and American Indian heritage who grew up in a Hispanic neighborhood in Albuquerque, Gish has always known that "one's place on the academic, social, or cultural 'bus' (back, front, passenger, or driver) changes with the times, as does the bus itself." Here he shares with us not only his recent enthusiasmshe was among the first critics to consider such minority writers as Rudolfo Anaya, James Welch, Ray Young Bear, and Jimmy Santiago Baca, and his essays on them serve as excellent introductions to their work - but also his continuing appreciation for the Anglo writers he read as a young man.

Today Charles Lummis, Erna and Harvey Fergusson, and Witter Bynner are often dismissed as paternalistic outsiders or colonialists. In disentangling their literary strengths from these stereotypes, Gish reminds us that we gain nothing from exclusivity. His openness to the varieties of American literature will make this book useful to a wide range of readers, especially students and teachers of college and high school literature classes.

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