Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a LiteratureMestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity

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Book Review| March 01 2021 Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a LiteratureMestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature. By González, Christopher. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2017. xii, 194 pp. Cloth, $129.95; paper, $29.95; e-book, $29.95.Mestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity. By Davis-Undiano, Robert Con. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2017. xxi, 312 pp. Cloth, $29.95; e-book available. Bernadine Hernández Bernadine Hernández Bernadine Hernández is an assistant professor in the department of English at the University of New Mexico. Her forthcoming book is titled Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth Century Borderlands (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2022). Her publications appear in Transgender Studies Quarterly, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Comparative Literature and Culture, among others. She specializes in transnational feminism and sexual economies of the US borderlands, along with American literary studies/empire from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, borderlands theory, and Chicana/Latina literature and sexualities. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 154–156. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8878590 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Bernadine Hernández; Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a LiteratureMestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity. American Literature 1 March 2021; 93 (1): 154–156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8878590 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literature Search Advanced Search Now more than ever, Latino/a studies is on the brink of change. From invoking the X to in Latino/a studies programs nationwide to having the tough conversations that 1960s and 1970s Chicano nationalists ignored regarding Indigenous and Black Latinos/as/x, the field is shifting. Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature by Christopher González and Mestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity by Robert Con Davis-Undiano are two vastly different texts that continue the conversation on the future of Latino/a studies.Permissible Narratives is an astute study of how readership has contended with the development of Latino/a literature over the last fifty-plus years. The book is part of the Cognitive Approaches to Culture Series from Ohio University Press and is unique because it employs a cognitive narratology framework to examine what is permissible in Latino/a narrative and what is foreclosed as... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press2021 You do not currently have access to this content.