Print version: Gonzalez, Christopher. Permissible narratives : the promise of Latino/a literature. Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017] Cognitive approaches to culture ISBN 9780814213506
Includes bibliographical references and index
Brown buffalos and New Mestizas: consciousness and readership in Chicano/a literature -- Translingual minds, narrative encounters: reading challenges in Piri Thomas’s Down these mean streets and Giannina Braschi’s Yo-yo boing! -- In graphic detail: challenges of memory and serialization in the storyworlds of Gilbert Hernandez -- Paratextual play: intertextual interventions in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo and Junot Diaz’s The Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao -- Conclusion: The narrative possibilities of Latino/a literature.