Movements in Chicano Poetry -Against Myths, against Margins (Cambridge Studies in American Literature & Culture)

Author: Rafael Perez-Torres,Albert Gelpi,Ross Posnock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Poetry Books, Poetry By Individual Poets, Literary Studies: General, Literary Studies: From C 1900 -, Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
Book Format: Paperback

Interpreting specific poems by some of the best known Chicano writers, this book studies the central aesthetic and thematic concerns recent Chicano poetry addresses. Drawing on current theories of postmodernity and postcoloniality, it places a 'minority' literature within the central concerns of contemporary literary and cultural studies. The book addresses the most important issues related to Chicano identity, especially focusing on the contribution women writers and thinkers have made in articulating this identity. The study will thus be of interest to scholars specialising in feminist, cultural as well as Chicano/a studies.

Table Of Contents
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 'Aztlan'; 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.

(BK-9780521478038)

SKU BK-9780521478038
Barcode # 9780521478038
Brand Cambridge University Press
Artist / Author Rafael Perez-Torres, Albert Gelpi, Ross Posnock
Shipping Weight 0.4500kg
Shipping Width 0.150m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.230m
Assembled Length 22.810m
Assembled Height 2.030m
Assembled Width 15.370m
Type Paperback

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