Since the early 1970s, a number of Chicana/o writers and artists have
interrogated the nation as a regulative idea for cultural identity and
social cohesion, and have favored postnational and transnational
imaginaries. 'Writing Transit' illustrates how Chicana/o narratives
refuse to function as disseminators for a uniform national project.
Instead, by representing contact zones between Northern Mexico and
Southern California, they create fictional universes in which cultural
"heres" and "theres" become increasingly blurred. With its focus on
unsettled and unsettling cultural positions "beyond the nation" in
Chicana/o literature, film, music and performance art, 'Writing Transit'
responds to a need to revise border and resistance paradigms in Literary
and Cultural Studies.