Threshold Time

Threshold Time provides an introductory survey of the cultural, social and political history of Mexican American and Chicano literature, as well as new in-depth analyses of a selection of works that between them span a hundred years of this particular branch of American literature. The book begins its explorations of the passage of crisis with Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don , continues with Americo Paredes' George Washington Gómez , Tomás Rivera's And the Earth Did Not De