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"Exploring the work of Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Luis Alberto Urrea, and many more, Charles Tatum examines the important social, historical, and cultural contexts in which the writing evolved, paying special attention to the Chicano Movement and the flourishing of literary texts during th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tatum, Charles M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Chicanos
Literatur
Mexican Americans > Intellectual life.
Mexican Americans in literature.
American literature > Mexican American authors.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
Americains d'origine mexicaine dans la litterature.
Americains d'origine mexicaine > Vie intellectuelle.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs americains d'origine mexicaine > Histoire et critique.
American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
Chicanos.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Approaches to the interpretation of Chicana/o literature
  • 1970s theoretical and critical approaches
  • The evolution of theoretical and critical approaches
  • Chicana feminist literary critics
  • Queer theory
  • Postcolonial theory
  • Cultural studies
  • Manuel Martín-Rodríguez and reception theory
  • Discussion questions
  • Suggested readings
  • 2. The origins and evolution of Chicana/o literature
  • The Spanish period
  • The oral tradition
  • Early written poetry
  • Spanish-period written narrative documents
  • Theater
  • The Mexican American period
  • Narrative fiction and memoirs
  • Mexican Americanism
  • Discussion questions
  • Suggested readings
  • 3. The Chicano movement and the flowering of Chicana/o literature
  • The Chicano movement
  • El Teatro Campesino and the Chicano movement
  • TENAZ and annual theater festivals
  • Poetry and the Chicano movement
  • Narrative fiction and the Chicano movement
  • Discussion questions
  • Suggested readings
  • 4. Chicana/o autobiography
  • Nineteenth- and twentieth-century oral histories
  • Women's voices of nostalgia as resistance
  • The autobiography of the immigrant experience
  • The autobiography of life along the border
  • The autobiography of the urban barrio experience
  • The autobiography of self-redemption
  • The autobiography of self-identity
  • Discussion questions
  • Suggested readings
  • 5. Trends and themes in contemporary Chicana/o narrative fiction
  • Living on the U.S.-Mexico border
  • The migrant experience
  • The barrio
  • The Chicana/o family
  • Growing up Chicana : the bildungsroman novel
  • Other forms of feminist expression
  • The reappropriation and reinterpretation of myths, legends, and cultural figures
  • The control and exercise of Chicana sexuality
  • Lesbian expression
  • War
  • The mystery novel
  • Recent trends in Chicana/o fiction
  • Discussion questions
  • Suggested readings
  • 6. Contemporary Chicana/o theater
  • Other 1970s Chicana/o playwrights
  • Theater projects
  • The prominence of Chicana theater in the 1980s and 1990s
  • Gay/lesbian theater
  • Organized Chicana/o theater groups
  • Discussion questions
  • Suggested readings
  • 7. Contemporary Chicana/o poetry
  • Second-phase poets
  • Third-phase poets
  • Chicana/o poetry from the mid-1980s forward
  • Discussion questions
  • Suggested readings.

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