Yolanda Padilla publishes “Literary Revolutions in the Borderlands: Transnational Dimensions of the Mexican Revolution and its Diaspora in the United States”

literary revolutions in the borderlands

IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla published a book chapter, "Literary Revolutions in the Borderlands: Transnational Dimensions of the Mexican Revolution and its Diaspora in the United States," in The Cambridge History of Latina/o Literature. Padilla's chapter uses what she calls a transnational Chicanx studies framework to analyze literary responses to the Revolution by Mexicans in the United States. Taken together, the diverse writings she analyzes reveal members of the Mexican diaspora to be producers of knowledge, as they elucidated through engagements with the Revolution Greater Mexico’s place of at the center of issues encompassing ethnic, national, and transnational concerns.