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

• 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

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

• 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

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

• 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