UID:
almafu_9959677606102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (310 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-06271-2
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9786613062710
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0-8223-8235-0
Serie:
Post-contemporary interventions
Inhalt:
This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a remarkable range of texts-both old and new-draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist.The editors have organized essays around four board themes: the situation of Chicano literary studies within American literary history and debates about the "canon"; representations of the Chicana/o subject; genre, ideology, and history; and the aesthetics of Chicano literature. The volu
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Narrative, ideology, and the reconstruction of American literary history / Ramon Saldivar -- The rewriting of American literary history / Luis Leal -- The theoretical subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American feminism / Norma Alacon -- Imprisoned narrative? Or lies, secrets, and silence in New Mexico women's autobiography / Genaro Padilla -- Body, spirit, and the text: Alma Villanueva's Life Span / Elizabeth J. Ordonez -- Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters: the novelist as ethnographer / Alvina E. Quintana -- Fables of the fallen guy / Renato Rosaldo -- The novel and the community of readers: rereading Tomas Rivera's Y no se lo trago la tierra / Hector Calderon -- Ideological discourses in Arturo Islas's The Rain God / Rosaura Sanchez -- Conceptualizing Chicano critical discourse / Angie Chabram -- Sites of struggle: immigration, deportation, prison, and exile / Barbara Harlow --
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(cont.) Chicano border narratives as cultural critique / Jose David Saldivar -- On Chicano poetry and the political age: Corridos as social drama / Teresa McKenna -- Feminism on the border: from gender politics to geopolitics / Sonia Saldivar-Hull -- Dancing with the devil: society, gender, and the political unconscious in Mexican-American South Texas / Jose E. Limon.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8223-1143-7
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8223-1137-2
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9780822382355
