Chicano Poetics - Heterotexts and Hybridities

Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities examines the crossing of literary and social forces that forms the context for being Chicano.

List of contents

Introduction; Canto Primero; Mestizaje/Difrasismo; Part I. Sex and Color: Respuesta a Frida; Heterotextual Reproduction; Tricks of Gender Xing; Part II. Nation and States: Net Laguna; An Other Tongue; Beasts and Jagged Strokes of Color; Part III. Space and Time: Small Sea of Europe; Blood Points; Late Epic, Post Postmodern.

Summary

Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities examines the crossing of literary and social forces that forms the context for being Chicano. Heterotextuality is the medium in which xicanismo is articulated and comes to be a hybrid subject of textual difference.

Product details

• Authors: Alfred Arteaga
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521573702
• ISBN: 978-0-521-57370-2
• No. of pages: 206
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 493 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies