Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Narrative, Sexuality,Race, and the Self -- CHAPTER 1. Querying Postcolonial and Borderland Queer Theory -- CHAPTER 2. John Rechy's Bending of Brown and White Canons -- CHAPTER 3. Arturo Islas's and Richard Rodriguez's Ethnosexual Re-architexturing of Metropolitan Space -- CHAPTER 4. Ana Castillo's and Sheila Ortiz Taylor's Bent Chicana Textualities -- CHAPTER 5. Edward J. Olmos's Postcolonial Penalizings of the Film-Image Repertoire -- CONCLUSION. Re-visioning Chicano/a Bodies and Texts -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.