With a Book in Their Hands

Chicano/a Readers and Readerships across the Centuries

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American
Cover of the book With a Book in Their Hands by , University of New Mexico Press
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Author: ISBN: 9780826354778
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Publication: June 30, 2014
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9780826354778
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication: June 30, 2014
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Language: English

First Place Winner of the 2015 International Latino Book Award for Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book

Literary history is a history of reading. What happens during the act of reading is the subject of the branch of literary scholarship known as reader-response theory. Does the text guide the reader? Does the reader operate independently of the text? Questions like these shape the approach of the essays in this book, edited by a scholar known for his groundbreaking work in using reader-response theory as a window into Chicana and Chicano literature.

Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez has overseen several research projects aimed at documenting Chicana and Chicano reading practices and experiences. Here he gathers diverse and passionate accounts of reading drawn from that research. For many, books served as refuges from the sorrows of a childhood marked by violence or parental abandonment. Several of the contributors here salute the roles of teachers in introducing poetry and stories into their lives.

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First Place Winner of the 2015 International Latino Book Award for Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book

Literary history is a history of reading. What happens during the act of reading is the subject of the branch of literary scholarship known as reader-response theory. Does the text guide the reader? Does the reader operate independently of the text? Questions like these shape the approach of the essays in this book, edited by a scholar known for his groundbreaking work in using reader-response theory as a window into Chicana and Chicano literature.

Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez has overseen several research projects aimed at documenting Chicana and Chicano reading practices and experiences. Here he gathers diverse and passionate accounts of reading drawn from that research. For many, books served as refuges from the sorrows of a childhood marked by violence or parental abandonment. Several of the contributors here salute the roles of teachers in introducing poetry and stories into their lives.

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