A Critical Collection on Alejandro Morales

📖 The Scoop

Alejandro Morales : an errant maverick faces the literary canon and history / Marc García-Martínez and Francisco A. Lomelí -- Submersion, suffocation, and entombment of the Mexican and immigrant body in River of angels : probing figurations of violence and isolation / Marc García-Martínez -- The analogous correspondence of an extreme poetics between Stanley Kubrick's A clockwork orange and Alejandro Morales' Barrio on the edge / Francisco A. Lomelí -- Alejandro Morales' The captain of all these men of death and Philip Roth's Nemesis : parallels and contrasts / Stephen Miller -- Tropes of ecothinking and the spatial imaginary in Alejandro Morales' River of angels / Sophia Emmanouilidou -- History, spatial justice, and the esperpento in Alejandro Morales' Pequeña nación / Jesús Rosales -- Heterotopia and the emergence of the modern ilusa in Waiting to happen / Margarita López López -- city history and space politics : Los Angeles in Morales' River of angels / Baojie Li -- Pequeña nación : big (feminist) revolution / Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo -- Bodies in motion in The place of the white heron, volume two of the Heterotopian trilogy : a glance through the panopticon / Adam Spires -- Race, space, and magical realism in The brick people and River of angels / Adina Ciugureanu -- Mestizaje, cultural identity, and environmental degradation in Alejandro Morales' The rag doll plagues / Manuel M. Martín Rodríguez -- Translation as rewriting and resituating : the two English versions of Caras viejas y vino nuevo by Alejandro Morales / Elena Errico -- History and fiction in Alejandro Morales' narratives / Luis Leal -- Epidemics, epistemophilia, and racism : ecological literary criticism and The rag doll plagues / María Herrera-Sobek -- A dialogue with the writer Alejandro Morales / Francisco Lomelí, Marc García-Martínez, and Daniel Olivas.

Genre: Literary Criticism / General (fancy, right?)