How does Chicano/a studies reconceptualize North American studies? Why do borders and borderlands figure so prominently in Chicano/a narrative and criticism? Rewriting North American Borders in Chicano and Chicana Narrative discusses three aspects of the Mexican American experience: the history of native origins in the borderlands, the (im)migrant experience, and the Chicana experience. They all produce narratives derived from the U.S.-Mexico border in its physical, political, psychological, and imaginative dimensions, and each (re)writes a distinct cultural poetics of that key site. A comprehensive study of Chicano/a narrative since the 1960s, this book presents theory combined with sensitive and detailed readings of most major (and many minor) Chicana and Chicano writers, including Gloria Anzald a, Norma Cant , Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Ernesto Galarza, Rolando Hinojosa, Rub n Mart nez, Cherr e Moraga, Alejandro Morales, Am rico Paredes, Estela Portillo Trambley, Tom s Rivera, Richard Rodriguez, Jos Villareal, Victor Villase or, and others.