Culture Across Borders is the first book-length study to analyze a wide range of cultural manifestations of the Mexican immigration experience, including art literature, cinema, corridos (folk songs), and humor. It shows how Mexican immigrants have been depicted in popular culture - both in Mexico and the United States - and how Mexican and ...
Early literary works written in Spanish in what is today the American Southwest have been largely excluded from the corpus of American literature, yet these documents are the literary antecedents of contemporary Chicano and Chicana writing. This new collection of essays establishes the importance of this literary heritage through a critical ...
..". well-written and well-documented landmark study... " -- Choice "This book raises important ideological and esthetic questions about the interpretation of artistic and cultural manifestations in a given society."A -- Hispanic American Historical Review "The present volume is provocative in direction and a refreshing addition to the extant ...
"Northward Bound" argues that the folksong is a viable and important document chronicling the history of Chicano/as in the United States. It traces Mexican emigration to the United States from 1848 to 1991 through the lyrics of Mexican ballads (corridos) and contemporary popular songs (canciones). These autobiographical songs reflect the ...
This volume presents full-length collections of poetry by three outstanding Chicana poets. Alicia Gaspar de Alba cultivates a poetry of paradox that explores the borders between politics and the sexes. Maria Herrera-Sobek's collection is suffused with memories that keep alive the dead, and that, with the help of ars poetica, reorder lives and ...
This provocative combination of original poetry, prose, criticism, and visual art documents the continuing growth of literature by and about Chicanas. Through innovative use of language and images, the artists represented here explore female sexuality, economic and social injustice, gender roles, and the contributions of critical theory. "Chicana ...
Chicanos and Chicanas, or Mexican Americans, are deeply rooted in the cultures of African, European, and Native American groups. This great tripartite cultural legacy is evident in such numerous folklore genres as myths, tales, legends, jests, folksongs, folk theatre, traditional customs, beliefs, medicine, games, and riddles. It also features in ...
The eleven essays collected in this volume describe individual African American, Chicano and Chicana, Native American, Asian American, gay and lesbian, and white female experiences in academe. Representing a wide variety of fields and career paths in the profession, the authors explore topics such as marginalization, alienation, and persistent ...
A study of 34 paintings by Santa Barraza, who depicts the historical, emotional and spiritual land between Mexico and Texas, between present reality and the mythic world of the ancient Aztecs and Mayas. The work includes analyses of the forces that have shaped Barraza as a Chicana artist.
This collection presents a rich, multidisciplinary inquiry into the role of religion in the U.S. Mexican American community. Breaking new ground by analyzing the critical influence of religion on Mexican American literature, art, politics, and pop culture, the volume makes the case for the establishment of Mexican American religious studies as a ...
This third volume of academic essays on recovering the Hispanic literary heritage of the United States features 27 articles by leading scholars. It addresses the broad topics of "Rewriting the Present: Nineteenth-Century Historical Novels; " "Women's Voices: The Construction of Ethnic Gender Identities; " "Chroniclers, Ethnographers, and ...
This volume is the first collection of studies devoted exclusively to Chicana literature. It contains important articles on the female hero in Chicano literature, the fictive voices of Chicana novelists, the prose of Gina Valdes and Sylvia Lizarraga, the short stories of Estela Portillo Trambley, the poetic "I" in Alma Villanueva's Mother, May I?, ...
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