Ends of assimilation : the formation of Chicano literature

Ends of assimilation : the formation of Chicano literature / John Alba Cutler.

'Ends of Assimilation' compares sociological and Chicano/a (Mexican-American) literary representations of assimilation. It argues that while Chicano/a literary works engage assimilation in complex, often contradictory ways, they manifest an underlying conviction in literature's produc...

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Main Author: Cutler, John Alba (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
American literature > Mexican American authors
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Representing Race, Producing Culture:Chicano/a Literature and the Sociology of Assimilation; Ends of Assimilation; Disjunctive Histories; Assimilation as Ideology; The Formation of Chicano/a Literature; 1. Becoming Mexican-American Literature; The Mexican-American Generation; "The First Mexican-American"; Pocho's Racial Boundaries; Nation Time(s) in George Washington Gómez; Gendered Assimilation in Caballero; Chicano/a Politics of Reception; 2. Quinto Sol, Chicano/a Literature, and the Long MarchThrough Institutions.
  • Literature, Cultural Capital, UniversitiesAssimilation Sociology and Structural Inequality; Quinto Sol Literature and Chicano/a Cultural Nationalism; Literary Discourse in Estampas del Valle; Rethinking the University in Rain of Scorpions; 3. Cultural Capital and the Singularity of Literature in Hungerof Memory and The Rain God; "Two Strong Men" ; Hunger of Memory's Symbolic Capital; Masculine Alienation in The Rain God; Neoliberal Assimilation; Transnational Sympathies; 4. Lyric Subjects, Cultures of Poverty, and Sandra Cisneros'sWicked Wicked Ways; Feminist Boundary Crossing.
  • "No Adelita nor Malintzín"Cultures of Poverty ; Recovering Mango Street's Lyric Subjects; "The Big Rock Comes In"; Cisneros, Brooks, and "Bad" Women; "My Jewels, My Colicky Kids"; 5. Segmented Assimilation and Jimmy Santiago Baca'sPrison Counterpublics; Segmentation versus Boundary Crossing ; Segmented Assimilation in Martín; Rereading Baca's Prison Poetics; Poetic Counterpublics; "The Poems are Signs that Tell Us Things"; 6. Disappeared Men: Chicano/a Authenticity and the AmericanWar in Viet Nam; Remembering Viet Nam, Remembering the Movement ; "The Buzz of the Reel."
  • Gods Go Begging and the Coloniality of Power Border Thinking in Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility; Besieged Authenticities in Their Dogs Came With Them; Disappeared Men; Conclusion; Assimilation "Is Now Condemned" ; What Was Chicano/a Literature?; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

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