Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Narrative, Sexuality, Race, and the Self
• 1. Querying Postcolonial and Borderland Queer Theory
• 2. John Rechy's Bending of Brown and White Canons
• 3. Arturo Islas's and Richard Rodriguez's Ethnosexual Re-architexturing of Metropolitan Space
• 4. Ana Castillo's and Sheila Ortiz Taylor's Bent Chicana Textualities
• 5. Edward J. Olmos's Postcolonial Penalizings of the Film-Image Repertoire
• Conclusion: Re-visioning Chicano/a Bodies and Texts
• Notes
• Works Cited

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An investigation of the ways in which race and sexuality intersect and function in Chicano/a literature and film.

About the Author

Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University.