Modesta Avila vs. the railroad and other stories about conquest, resistance and village life / Lisbeth Haas -- Places of contradiction and resistance / Antonieta Oliver Rotger -- Forming feminist coalitions / Anna M. Sandoval -- Wailing as a mode of blurring boundaries in Helena María Viramontes' "The Cariboo Cafe" / Ivonne Gordon Vailakis -- Reflejo y sombra : the mythopoetic Chicana in Cherríc Moragas' Shadow of man / Lionel Cantú -- The nature of Chicana literature / María Herrera-Sobek -- California Chicana community and cultural praxis / Judith L. Huacuja Pearson