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Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez: “A Net Made of Words: Intertextuality in Chicano/a Literature”

November 13, 2015 @ 2:00 pm - 3:10 pm  |  College 8, Red Room

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This lecture will explore ways in which Chicano/a literature crosses literary borders, establishing a net of ties and connections with other literary traditions.

Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez is Professor of Literature and founding faculty at the University of California, Merced. He has published the books The Textual Outlaw: Reading John Rechy in the 21st Century (co-edited with Beth Hernandez-Jason, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 2015), Cantas a Marte y das batalla a Apolo: Cinco estudios sobre Gaspar de Villagrá (Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, 2014), With a Book in Their Hands: Chicano/a Readers and Readership Across the Centuries (University of New Mexico Press, 2014, edited; recipient of a 2015 International Latino Book Award), a scholarly edition of Gaspar de Villagrá’s Historia de la nueva Mexico (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 2010), Gaspar de Villagrá: Legista, soldado y poeta (Universidad de León, 2009), Life in Search of Readers: Reading (in) Chicano/a Literature (University of New Mexico Press, 2003), La voz urgente: Antología de literatura chicana en español (Editorial Fundamentos, 1995, 1999, and 2006), and Rolando Hinojosa y su “cronicón” chicano: Una novela del lector (Universidad de Sevilla, 1993). His scholarly articles have appeared in PMLA, Modern Language Quarterly, The Bilingual Review, The Americas Review, La Palabra y el Hombre, Hispania, Revista Iberoamericana, Latin American Literary Review, REDEN, and Aztlán, among others. Martín-Rodríguez is also the publisher of alternaCtive-publicaCtions, a virtual press that has featured numerous Latino/a authors. He serves on the National Committee of the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award, and is an elected Académico de Número of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española.

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Date:
November 13, 2015
Time:
2:00 pm - 3:10 pm
Cost:
Free
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