A.I. Bigalondo on L. Johannessen’s Threshold Time, Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature.

Johannessen, Lene M. Threshold Time. Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature. Costerus New Series 173. Rodopi: Amsterdam-New York, 2008. ISBN: 978-90-420-2332-1. Borrowing from Bakhtin’s notion of the “threshold chronotope”, Lene Johannessen’s Threshold Time. Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature describes the ways in which six novels appoint and depict the Borderland from different temporal and spatial settings. The works analyzed by Johannessen are Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatt...