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Among the lasting legacies of the Chicano Movement is the cultural flowering that it inspired -- one that has steadily grown from the 1960s to the present. It encompasses all of the arts and continues to earn acclaim both nationally and internationally. Although this Chicano artistic renaissance received extensive scholarly attention in its initial phase, the post-Movimiento years since the late 1970s have been largely overlooked. This book meets...
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"The Texas Centennial of 1936, commemorated by statewide celebrations of independence from Mexico, proved to be a powerful catalyst for the formation of a distinctly Mexican American identity. Confronted by a media frenzy that vilified "Meskins" as the antithesis of Texan liberty, Mexican Americans created literary responses that critiqued these racialized representations while forging a new bilingual, bicultural community within the United States....
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In 1972 Rudolfo Anaya made a quiet entry into American literature with the publication of Bless Me, Ultima. It was the first Chicano novel to enter the American literary canon, and it helped identify Anaya as one of the founders of Chicano literature.
In this collection of interviews Anaya talks about his life and how New Mexico, his home state, influences his work. The interviews explore the importance that myths and spiritual matters play in his...
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In struggling to retain their cultural unity, the Mexican-American communities of the American Southwest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have produced a significant body of literature. This text examines representative narratives--including the novel, short story, narrative verse, and autobiography--that have been excluded from the American canon.
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Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities examines the crossing of literary and social forces - be they linguistic, political, poetic - that forms the context for being Chicano. Heterotextual poetics reveals how a poetry of the cross can influence identity, in readings ranging from the poetry of gender and race by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz to that of the fragmentary, postmodern subject of Juan Felipe Herrera. How the text of Spanish and Indian...
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"The Mexican/U.S. border has been an entity whose existence constantly illicits redefinition. The oscillating movement of Mexicans as well as Americans across the border; the social, political, and economic condition of both countries; and the predominant popular cultural fads of both nations affect the cultural dialogue between the two countries. It is this dialogue that is mirrored in the humanities: art, film, and literature."--Page xi
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"The texts presented in this anthology include late-19th and early 20th-century 'oppositional' writings, as well as works with dominant rural or urban settings. The selections include three of the five writers--Gloria Anzaldúa, Lorna Dee Cervantes, and Luis Valdez--whose work has been included by the College Board in the Recommended Reading List for the Advanced Placement Exam of the Educational Testing Service. Comprising eight essays, sixteen short...
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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...
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