Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)
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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. It reveals how a poetry of the cross can influence identity, in readings ranging from the poetry of gender and race by Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz to that of the fragmentary, postmodern subject of Juan Felipe Herrara. How the text of Spanish and Indian miscegenation and the story of Aztl?n propagate identity is demonstrated in texts from Bernal Diaz del Castillo to Gloria Anzald?a. The international space and the interlingual language of the borderlands are read as factors of nationalism and postcoloniality in discussion ranging from cowboy lingo to the essential Mexicanism of Octavio Paz. Heterotextuality is the medium in which xicanismo is articulated and comes to be a hybrid subject of textual difference.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521574927
ISBN13:9780521574921
Release Date:July 1997
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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