Critical Collection on Alejandro Morales

Marc García-Martínez is a professor of English at Allan Hancock College and a lecturer of Chicana/o studies at UC–Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Flesh-and-Blood Aesthetics of Alejandro Morales: Disease, Sex, and Figuration. Francisco A. Lomelí is a professor emeritus of Chicana/o studies and Spanish and Portuguese at UC–Santa Barbara. He is the author, coauthor, and coeditor of forty books, including a landmark translation of Alejandro Morales' Barrio on the Edge and Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland (UNM Press).

"This landmark collection of critical essays analyzes Alejandro Morales' works throughout the vast scope of his literary career and fully reveals the genius and the aesthetic and intellectual significance of his prolific contributions to US literature and culture broadly and Chicana and Chicano literature and culture more specifically. This volume gives Morales' work the prominent place it deserves in US literary history." - Timothy R. Libretti, contributor to Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt: Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan"Borges generatively explored how the finite could grasp the infinite—those perfect spheres and points in space that contain all the universe's points and angles of perception. Alchemical curators Marc García-Martínez and Francisco A. Lomelí show us how words that shape scholarly concepts can lead to the apprehension of the ungraspable. They put into polyversal play perfectly shaped scholarly spheres that open us to the infinitude of Alejandro Morales' multiverses and futurities." - Frederick Luis Aldama, coeditor of Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities

• Introduction: Alejandro Morales: An Errant Maverick Faces the Literary Canon and History Marc García-Martínez and Francisco A. LomelíChapter One. Submersion, Suffocation, and Entombment of the Mexican and Immigrant Body in River of Angels—Probing Figurations of Violence and Isolation Marc García-MartínezChapter Two. The Analogous Correspondence of an Extreme Poetics between Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and Alejandro Morales' Barrio on the Edge Francisco A. LomelíChapter Three. Alejandro Morales' The Captain of All These Men of Death and Philip Roth's Nemesis: Parallels and Contrasts Stephen MillerChapter Four. Tropes of Ecothinking and the Spatial Imaginary in Alejandro Morales' River of Angels Sophia EmmanouilidouChapter Five. History, Spatial Justice, and the Esperpento in Alejandro Morales' Pequeña nación Jesús RosalesChapter Six. Heterotopia and the Emergence of the Modern Ilusa in Waiting to Happen Margarita López LópezChapter Seven. City History and Space Politics: Los Angeles in Morales' River of Angels Baojie LiChapter Eight. Pequeña nación: Big (Feminist) Revolution Amaia Ibarraran-BigalondoChapter Nine. Bodies in Motion in The Place of the White Heron, Volume Two of the Heterotopian Trilogy: A Glance through the Panopticon Adam SpiresChapter Ten. Race, Space, and Magical Realism in The Brick People and River of Angels Adina CiugureanuChapter Eleven. Mestizaje, Cultural Identity, and Environmental Degradation in Alejandro Morales' The Rag Doll Plagues Manuel M. Martín RodríguezChapter Twelve. Translation as Rewriting and Resituating: The Two English Versions of Caras viejas y vino nuevo by Alejandro Morales Elena ErricoChapter Thirteen. History and Fiction in Alejandro Morales' Narratives Luis LealChapter Fourteen. Epidemics, Epistemophilia, and Racism: Ecological Literary Criticism and The Rag Doll Plagues María Herrera-SobekChapter Fifteen. A Dialogue with the Writer Alejandro Morales Francisco Lomelí, Marc García-Martínez, and Daniel OlivasBibliographyContributorsIndex