Ritual Structures in Chicana Fiction

Abstract

This series seeks to bring forth contemporary critical interventions within a hemispheric perspective, with an emphasis on perspectives from Latin America. Books in the series highlight work that explores concerns in literature in different cultural contexts across historical and geographical boundaries and also include work on the specifi c Latina/o realities in the United States. Designed to explore key questions confronting contemporary issues of literary and cultural import, Literatures of the Americas is rooted in traditional approaches to literary criticism but seeks to include cutting-edge scholarship using theories from postcolonial, critical race, and ecofeminist approaches.

DISPATCHES FROM BARTERTOWN: Building Pedagogy in the Exigent Moment

“…-Toni Morrison Part I of this book is designed to provide readers with a general introduction to teaching English at the two-year college. It features Darin Jensen's essay about the joys and challenges of teaching at a two-year college as an adjunct professor along with my interview with Helane Adams Androne (Androne 2014;Androne 2016). These chapters are followed by our first two student contributors, Bridgette Stepule and Lydia Sekscenski, who offer advice to teachers at the two-year college about effective teaching.…”