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Chicano and Chicana Literature : Otra voz del pueblo
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Chicano and Chicana Literature : Otra voz del pueblo / Charles M. Tatum.
ISBN
9780816549986
9780816524273
Publication
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2006.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource: portraits
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Summary
"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 the 1960s and early 1970s. Chapters provide an overview of the most important theoretical and critical approaches employed by scholars over the past forty years and survey the major trends and themes in contemporary autobiography, fiction, poetry, and theater."--Page 4 of cover.
Variant and related titles
Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Series
The Mexican American experience
Contents
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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Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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