Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography

Juan Velasco is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Modern Languages at Santa Clara University, USA where he teaches courses in non-fiction creative writing, autobiography and Latina/o literature. He is the author of Las fronteras móviles: tradición, modernidad y la búsqueda de ‘lo mexicano’ en la Literatura Chicana contemporánea (2003) and his academic publications have appeared in Latino/a Literature In The Classroom: 21st Century Approaches to Teaching, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama; Expanding the Circle: Creating an Inclusive Environment in Higher Education for LGBTQ Students and Studies, edited by John Hawley; and in Ethnic Literatures and Transnationalism, edited by Aparajita Nanda.

• Preface.- Introduction: Beyond the Hunger of Memories.- Automitografia.- Crossings.- Culture As Resistance.- Making Familia From Scratch.- The New Mestizas.- Canicular Consciousness.- Bibliography.