Movements in Chicano Poetry
Against Myths, against Margins

Studies the central concerns addressed by recent Chicano poetry.

Rafael Pèrez-Torres (Author)

9780521478038, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 January 1995

352 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 2 cm, 0.465 kg

Interpreting specific poems by some of the best known Chicano writers, this book studies the central aesthetic and thematic concerns recent Chicano poetry addresses. Drawing on current theories of postmodernity and postcoloniality, it places a 'minority' literature within the central concerns of contemporary literary and cultural studies. The book addresses the most important issues related to Chicano identity, especially focusing on the contribution women writers and thinkers have made in articulating this identity. The study will thus be of interest to scholars specialising in feminist, cultural as well as Chicano/a studies.

1. Introduction: movements in a 'minority' literature
Part I: The Postcolonial: 2. Four or five worlds - Chicano: a literary criticism as postcolonial discourse
3. From the homeland to the borderlands, the reformation of 'Aztlán'
4. Locality, locotes and the politics of displacement
Part II. The Postmodern: 5. Migratory readings: Chicana/o literary criticism and the postmodern
6. Mythic 'memory' and cultural construction
7. Mouthing off - polyglossia and radical mestizaje
Part III. Confluences: 8. Between worlds.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC]