Chicano Poetics
Heterotexts and Hybridities

Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities examines the crossing of literary and social forces that forms the context for being Chicano.

Alfred Arteaga (Author)

9780521574921, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 July 1997

208 pages
22.7 x 15.3 x 1.4 cm, 0.315 kg

"Thoughtful, incisive, self-reflective.... Arteaga's work makes clear how the qualities that the term `Chicano' as subjectivity evokes are inflected by the corporeal presence of the Chicano body...." Rafael Pérez-Torres, Contemporary Literature

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 Inés 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 Aztlán propagate identity is demonstrated in texts from Bernal Diaz del Castillo to Gloria Anzaldúa. 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.

Introduction
Canto Primero
Mestizaje/Difrasismo
Part I. Sex and Color: Respuesta a Frida
Heterotextual Reproduction
Tricks of Gender Xing
Part II. Nation and States: Net Laguna
An Other Tongue
Beasts and Jagged Strokes of Color
Part III. Space and Time: Small Sea of Europe
Blood Points
Late Epic, Post Postmodern.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]