Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a Literature

“A marvelous introduction to some of the most luminous and illuminating voices to be found in the Chicano/a and Mexican literary traditions, offering a fascinating and resonant dialogue among them.”
–Rafael Pérez-Torres, Professor of American Literature and Chicano Studies, UCLA

As the descendants of Mexican immigrants have settled throughout the United States, a great literature has emerged, but its correspondances with the literature of Mexico have gone largely unobserved. In Bordering Fir...