Ends of assimilation : the formation of Chicano literature /

Ends of Assimilation examines how Chicano literature imagines the conditions and costs of cultural change, arguing that its thematic preoccupation with assimilation illuminates the function of literature. John Alba Cutler shows how mid-century sociologists advanced a model of assimilation that ignor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cutler, John Alba (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Temas:
American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine > Histoire et critique.
Assimilation (Sociologie) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature > Mexican American authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Representing Race, Producing Culture:Chicano/a Literature and the Sociology of Assimilation""; ""Ends of Assimilation""; ""Disjunctive Histories""; ""Assimilation as Ideology""; ""The Formation of Chicano/a Literature""; ""1. Becoming Mexican-American Literature""; ""The Mexican-American Generation""; ""“The First Mexican-Americanâ€?""; ""Pochoâ€?s Racial Boundaries""; ""Nation Time(s) in George Washington Gómez""; ""Gendered Assimilation in Caballero""; ""Chicano/a Politics of Reception""
  • ""2. Quinto Sol, Chicano/a Literature, and the Long MarchThrough Institutions""""Literature, Cultural Capital, Universities""; ""Assimilation Sociology and Structural Inequality""; ""Quinto Sol Literature and Chicano/a Cultural Nationalism""; ""Literary Discourse in Estampas del Valle""; ""Rethinking the University in Rain of Scorpions""; ""3. Cultural Capital and the Singularity of Literature in Hungerof Memory and The Rain God""; ""“Two Strong Menâ€? ""; ""Hunger of Memoryâ€?s Symbolic Capital""; ""Masculine Alienation in The Rain God""; ""Neoliberal Assimilation""
  • ""€œThe Poems are Signs that Tell Us Thingsâ€?""""6. Disappeared Men: Chicano/a Authenticity and the AmericanWar in Viet Nam""; ""Remembering Viet Nam, Remembering the Movement ""; ""“The Buzz of the Reelâ€? ""; ""Gods Go Begging and the Coloniality of Power ""; ""Border Thinking in Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility""; ""Besieged Authenticities in Their Dogs Came With Them""; ""Disappeared Men""; ""Conclusion""; ""Assimilation “Is Now Condemnedâ€? ""; ""What Was Chicano/a Literature?""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""

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