Movements in Chicano Poetry - Against Myths, Against Margins

Zusammenfassung This book studies the central aesthetic and thematic concerns recent Chicano poetry addresses! and places a 'minority' literature within the central concerns of contemporary literary and cultural studies. The book addresses issues related to Chicano identity! focusing on the contribution women writers and thinkers have made in articulating this identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: movements in a 'minority' literature; Part I: The Postcolonial: 2. Four or five worlds - Chicano: a literary criticism as postcolonial discourse; 3. From the homeland to the borderlands, the reformation of 'Aztlán'; 4. Locality, locotes and the politics of displacement; Part II. The Postmodern: 5. Migratory readings: Chicana/o literary criticism and the postmodern; 6. Mythic 'memory' and cultural construction; 7. Mouthing off - polyglossia and radical mestizaje; Part III. Confluences: 8. Between worlds.

Product details

• Authors: Rafael P. Rez-Torres, Rafael P¿z-Torres, Rafael Perez-Torres, Rafael Pèrez-Torres
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.01.1995
• EAN: 9780521478038
• ISBN: 978-0-521-47803-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies