Chicano narrative : the dialectics of difference

Chicano narrative : the dialectics of difference /

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 auto...

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Main Author: Saldívar, Ramón, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1990.
Series:Wisconsin project on American writers
Subjects:
American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
Mexican Americans > Intellectual life.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine > Histoire et critique.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Vie intellectuelle.
Narration.
Américains d'origine mexicaine dans la littérature.
American literature > Mexican American authors.
Mexicaanse Amerikanen.
Verteltheorie.
Roman.
Mexicano americanos > Vida intelectual.
Mexicano americanos en la literatura.
Chicanos.
Narrative
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Race, class, and gender in the Southwest: foundations of an American resistance literature and its literary history
  • The folk base of Chicano narrative: Americo Paredes' With his pistol in his hand and the Corrido tradition
  • Paredes, Villarreal, and the dialectics of history
  • Beyond good and evil: Utopian dialectics in Tomas Rivera and Oscar Zeta Acosta
  • Rolando Hinojosa's Korean love songs and the Klail City death trip: a border ballad and its heroes
  • Ideologies of the self: Chicano autobiography
  • The dialectics of subjectivity: gender and difference in Isabella Rios, Sandra Cisneros, and Cherrie Moraga
  • Conclusion: The reconstruction of American literary history.

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