Racial immanence: chicanx bodies beyond representation

Introduction. Santa Anna's wooden leg and other things about the chicanx body; or, what are we really talking about when we talk about chicanx literature?

1. RACE : Dagoberto Gilb's phenomenology

2. FACE : Cecile Pineda's spectacular blank slate

3. PLACE : authenticity, metaphor, and AIDS in Gil Cuadros and Sheila Ortiz Taylor

4. WASTE : the trash fiction of Alejandro Morales, Beatriz Pita, and Rosaura Sánchez

Coda. Accordions of abjection : genealogies of chicanx punk.