Critical Essays on Chicano Studies

2007 Foreign Language Study

Author : Ramón Espejo
Release : 2007
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Download or read book Critical Essays on Chicano Studies written by Ramón Espejo. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the most recent critical and theoretical approaches in the field of Chicano studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions go back to the 4th International Conference on Chicano Literature which took place in Sevilla in May 2004. They deal with a wide variety of topics and approach the subject from diverse viewpoints. Some examine specific literary texts by major Chicano authors from feminist, comparative and close-reading approaches, others discuss ideological and cultural issues like folklore, ethnicity, identity, sexuality or stereotypes, while yet others focus on artistic manifestations like films and murals. Furthermore, the volume also includes an interview with the Chicana writer Ana Castillo. The main goal of this collection is to find new cultural possibilities and strategies while exploring future dilemmas in the field of Chicano Studies.

Modern Chicano Writers

1979 Literary Collections

Author : Joseph Sommers
Release : 1979
Genre : Literary Collections
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Download or read book Modern Chicano Writers written by Joseph Sommers. This book was released on 1979. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heirs to a cultural literacy rich in Mexican and American influences, modern Chicano writers combine an urgent sense of social protest with a vibrant literary style. Containing contributions from both recognized scholars such as Américo Paredes, Luis Leal, and Felipe Ortego and younger critics, including Yvonne Yabro-Bejarano, Ralph Grajeda and Marta Sánchez, Modern Chicano writers affirms the dynamic blending of continuity and change that characterizes the modern Chicano writer. Beginning with a series of five "framing" articles, the editors establish the literary history, folk culture, critical theory and sociolinguistics surrounding the Chicano people. Other critiques examine the narrative techniques of Tomás Rivera and his opposing themes of resignation and rebellion, the poet Alurista and his use of traditional mythology to convey contemporary social concerns, and the relationof popular art to the Chicano struggle for cultural identity in El Teatro Campesino. This volume presents a unique collection of critical commentaries that explore the development and future direction of modern Chicano literature.

I Am Aztlán

2004 History

Author : Chon A. Noriega
Release : 2004
Genre : History
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Download or read book I Am Aztlán written by Chon A. Noriega. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most articles previously published in Aztlaan: a journal of Chicano studies, between 1997 and 2003.

Criticism in the Borderlands

1991-05-30 Literary Criticism

Author : Héctor Calderón
Release : 1991-05-30
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Criticism in the Borderlands written by Héctor Calderón. This book was released on 1991-05-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 volume as a whole aims at generating new ways of understanding what counts as culture and “theory” and who counts as a theorist. A selected and annotated bibliography of contemporary Chicano literary criticism is also included. By recovering neglected authors and texts and introducing readers to an emergent Chicano canon, by introducing new perspectives on American literary history, ethnicity, gender, culture, and the literary process itself, Criticism in the Borderlands is an agenda-setting collection that moves beyond previous scholarship to open up the field of Chicano literary studies and to define anew what is American literature. Contributors. Norma Alarcón, Héctor Calderón, Angie Chabram, Barbara Harlow, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Leal, José E. Limón, Terese McKenna, Elizabeth J. Ordóñez, Genero Padilla, Alvina E. Quintana, Renato Rosaldo, José David Saldívar, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Rosaura Sánchez, Roberto Trujillo

Beyond Stereotypes

1985 Literary Criticism

Author : María Herrera-Sobek
Release : 1985
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Beyond Stereotypes written by María Herrera-Sobek. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first collection of studies devoted exclusively to Chicana literature. It contains important articles on the female hero in Chicano literature, the fictive voices of Chicana novelists, the prose of Gina Valdes and Sylvia Lizarraga, the short stories of Estela Portillo Trambley, the poetic "I" in Alma Villanueva's Mother, May I?, and humor in Chicanao literature.

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