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Threshold Time provides an introductory survey of the cultural, social and political history of Mexican American and Chicano literature, as well as new in-depth analyses of a selection of works that between them span a hundred years of this particular branch of American literature. The book begins its explorations of the â€œpassage of crisisâ€ with Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burtonâ€™s The Squatter and the Don, continues with Americo Paredesâ€™ George Washington GÃ³mez, TomÃ¡s Riveraâ€™s â€¦And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, Richard Rodriguezâ€™s Hunger of Memory, and ends with Helena MarÃa Viramontesâ€™ Under the Feet of Jesus and Benjamin Alire SÃ¡enzâ€™ Carry Me Like Water. In order to do justice to the idiosyncrasies of the individual texts and the complexities they embrace, the analyses refer to a number of other texts belonging to the tradition, and draw on a wide range of theoretical approaches. The final chapter of Threshold Time brings the various readings together in a discussion circumscribed by the negotiations of a temporality that is strongly aligned with a sense of memory peculiar to the history of the Chicano presence in the United States of America.