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Author : José Antonio Villarreal
Release : 1989
Genre : California
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Book Rating : 668/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pocho by : José Antonio Villarreal
Download or read book Pocho written by José Antonio Villarreal. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Spanish-speaking Californian struggles for self-illumination during the Depression Era
Author : Jose Antonio Villarreal
Release : 1970-11-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Pocho: En Espanol by : Jose Antonio Villarreal
Download or read book Pocho: En Espanol written by Jose Antonio Villarreal. This book was released on 1970-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Mexican-American struggles to achieve adulthood as a youth influenced by two conflicting worlds.
Author : José A. Villarreal
Release : 1970
Genre : Children of immigrants
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Book Synopsis Pocho by : José A. Villarreal
Download or read book Pocho written by José A. Villarreal. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictionalized account of a Mexican family's experiences in the United States.
Author : Swati Rana
Release : 2020-10-06
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 484/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Race Characters by : Swati Rana
Download or read book Race Characters written by Swati Rana. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vexed figure inhabits U.S. literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream. Such figures are potent and controversial, for they promise to expiate racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. Swati Rana grapples with these figures, building on studies of literary character and racial form. Rana offers a new way to view characterization through racialization that creates a fuller social reading of race. Situated in a nascent period of ethnic identification from 1900 to 1960, this book focuses on immigrant writers who do not fit neatly into a resistance-based model of ethnic literature. Writings by Paule Marshall, Ameen Rihani, Dalip Singh Saund, Jose Garcia Villa, and Jose Antonio Villarreal symbolize different aspects of the American dream, from individualism to imperialism, assimilation to upward mobility. The dynamics of characterization are also those of contestation, Rana argues. Analyzing the interrelation of persona and personhood, Race Characters presents an original method of comparison, revealing how the protagonist of the American dream is socially constrained and structurally driven.
Author : Roberto Cantú
Release : 2022-09-12
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 777/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis José Antonio Villarreal and Pocho by : Roberto Cantú
Download or read book José Antonio Villarreal and Pocho written by Roberto Cantú. This book was released on 2022-09-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book blends biography, history, and literary criticism in its analysis of Pocho (1959), José Antonio Villarreal’s evocative and semi-autobiographical novel about Richard Rubio, a Mexican American youth raised in a pastoral community in central California where people self-identified according to race, ethnicity, or religious affiliation. Richard is the son of an Indigenous Maya mother and a Mexican, fair-skin father who fought in the 1910 Mexican Revolution as a cavalryman, placing Richard outside the town’s imposed and regulated ethnic identities. In spite of his varied ancestry, his American birth, and his probing intelligence, Richard’s Indigenous appearance casts him as a social outsider. Pocho was written over a nine-year period of vigorous creativity, and with Villarreal’s power of recall and imagination at their prime. In writing his inaugural novel, Villarreal drew inspiration from modern narratives (paintings, novels, films), and from ancient Greek tragedy to create a Mexican American version of its classical drama ancestor. This book’s critical approach to Villarreal’s literary work is intelligibly written so as to be of access to a broad and all-inclusive readership and institutions, from college and university professors, public libraries, and the general reader to students of US, Mexican American, and world literatures.
