Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-168) and index.
Introduction : narrative, sexuality, race, and the self -- Querying postcolonial and borderland queer theory -- John Rechy's bending of brown and white canons -- Arturo Islas's and Richard Rodriguez's ethnosexual re-architexturing of metropolitan space -- Ana Castillo's and Sheila Ortiz Taylor's bent Chicana textualities -- Edward J. Olmos's postcolonial penalizings of the film-image repertoire -- Conclusion : re-visioning Chicano/a bodies and texts