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Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography

Author : Juan Velasco
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137595409

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Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography by Juan Velasco Pdf

The first book length study of this genre, Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography facilitates new understandings of how people and cultures are displaced and reinvent themselves. Through the examination of visual arts and literature, Juan Velasco analyzes the space for self-expression that gave way to a new paradigm in contemporary Chicana/o autobiography. By bringing together self-representation with complex theoretical work around culture, ethnicity, race, gender, sex, and nationality, this work is at the crossroads of intersectional analysis and engages with scholarship on the creation of cross-border communities, the liberatory dimensions of cultural survival, and the reclaiming of new art fashioned against the mechanisms of violence that Mexican-Americans have endured.

The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing

Author : Maria Joaquina Villaseñor,Christine J. Fernández
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781040019016

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The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing by Maria Joaquina Villaseñor,Christine J. Fernández Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing provides an in‐depth introduction to Latinx life writing, taking a historical approach to the study of a variety of key Latinx life writers, genres, and thematic concerns. This volume includes chapters on fundamental genres of Latinx life writing including memoir, autobiography, oral history, testimonio, comics and graphic texts, poetry of protest, and theatre to more fully depict the breadth, dynamism, and vibrancy of Latinx life writing. Latinx people continuously engaged in the empowering act of telling their stories and narrating their lives, producing writing that at various times and in various ways expressed their joy, expressed their rage and anguish, and ultimately, asserted their subjectivity all the while indelibly contributing to the American literary landscape.

Chicana Portraits

Author : Norma Elia Cantú
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816551835

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Chicana Portraits by Norma Elia Cantú Pdf

This innovative collection pairs portraits with critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an engaging look at their work, contributions to the field, and major achievements. Artist Raquel Valle-Sentíes’s portraits bring visual dimension, while essays delve deeply into the authors’ lives for details that inform their literary, artistic, feminist, and political trajectories and sensibilities. The collection brilliantly intersects artistic visual and literary cultural productions, allowing complex themes to emerge, such as the fragility of life, sexism and misogyny, Chicana agency and forging one’s own path, the struggles of becoming a writer and battling self-doubt, economic instability, and political engagement and activism. Arranged chronologically by birth order of the authors, the book can be read cover to cover for a genealogical overview, or scholars and general readers can easily jump in at any point and read about an individual author, regardless of the chronology. Biographies included in this work include Raquel Valle-Sentíes, Angela de Hoyos, Montserrat Fontes, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Norma E. Cantú, Denise Elia Chávez, Carmen Tafolla, Cherríe Moraga, Ana Castillo, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Sandra Cisneros, and Demetria Martínez. Contributors Cordelia E. Barrera Mary Pat Brady Norma E. Cantú María Jesus Castro Dopacio Carlos Nicolás Flores Myrriah Gómez Maria Magdalena Guerra de Charur Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs Georgina Guzmán Cristina Herrera María Esther Quintana Eliza Rodríguez y Gibson Meagan Solomon Lourdes Torres Raquel Valle-Sentíes Jen Yáñez-Alaniz

Translating Cultures in Search of Human Universals

Author : Ikram Ahmed Elsherif
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781527564398

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Translating Cultures in Search of Human Universals by Ikram Ahmed Elsherif Pdf

Informed by the anthropological research of Professor Donald E. Brown on human universals, this book compiles 10 articles exploring the representation of common human cultural practices and concerns in literature, cinema and language. The book as a whole demonstrates not only that Brown’s human universals are shared by different cultures, but most importantly that they have the potential to form a basis for inter- and intra-cultural communication and consolidation, bridging gaps of misinformation and miscommunication, both spatial and temporal. The contributors are Egyptian scholars who cross temporal and spatial boundaries and borders from Africa and the Middle East to Asia, Europe and the Americas, and dive deep into the heart of the shared human universals of myth, folklore and rituals, dreams, trauma, cultural beliefs, search for identity, language, translation and communication. They bring their own unique perspectives to the investigation of how shared human practices and concerns seep through the porous boundaries of different cultures and into a variety of creative and practical genres of fiction, drama, autobiography, cinema and media translation. Their research is interdisciplinary, informed by anthropological, social, psychological, linguistic and cultural theory, and thus offers a multi-faceted and multi-layered view of the human experience.

Word Images

Author : Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816534098

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Word Images by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs Pdf

This book explores and celebrates works by Norma Elia Cantú, focusing on her critically-acclaimed book, Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en La Frontera, a fictionalized memoir of Laredo in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s--Provided by publisher.

Bridges, Borders, and Breaks

Author : William Orchard,Yolanda Padilla
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822981411

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Bridges, Borders, and Breaks by William Orchard,Yolanda Padilla Pdf

This volume reassesses the field of Chicana/o literary studies in light of the rise of Latina/o studies, the recovery of a large body of early literature by Mexican Americans, and the “transnational turn” in American studies. The chapters reveal how “Chicano” defines a literary critical sensibility as well as a political one and show how this view can yield new insights about the status of Mexican Americans, the legacies of colonialism, and the ongoing prospects for social justice. Chicana/o literary representations emerge as significant examples of the local that interrogate globalization’s attempts to erase difference. They also highlight how Chicana/o literary studies’ interests in racial justice and the minority experience have produced important intersections with new disciplines while also retaining a distinctive character. The recalibration of Chicana/o literary studies in light of these shifts raises important methodological and disciplinary questions, which these chapters address as they introduce the new tools required for the study of Chicana/o literature at this critical juncture.

Recovering The U.S Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume I

Author : RamÑn A. Guti?rrez,Genaro Padilla
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1611922623

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Recovering The U.S Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume I by RamÑn A. Guti?rrez,Genaro Padilla Pdf

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage is a compendium of articles by the leading scholars on Hispanic literary history of the United States. The anthology functions to acquaint both expert and neophyte with the work that has been done to date on this literary history, to outline the agenda for recovering the lost Hispanic literary heritage and to discuss the pressing questions of canonization, social class, gender and identity that must be addressed in restoring the lost or inaccessible history and literature of any people.

My History, Not Yours

Author : Genaro M. Padilla
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299139743

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My History, Not Yours by Genaro M. Padilla Pdf

Traces the development of autobiography among Mexican Americans as a personal and communicative response to the threat of cultural extinction after the US conquered the northern provinces of Mexico in 1848. Explores how the writers perceived their society and the place of individuals in it. The quotations include translations. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Cross-Addressing

Author : John C. Hawley
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438406183

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Cross-Addressing by John C. Hawley Pdf

The sixteen original essays by scholars from around the world examine concerns common to writers who experience marginalization based upon their inescapable identification with two or more cultures. From Australian aboriginal and Maori, to Irish, Maghrebian, and South African, and on to the rich ethnic mix in North America, the book considers fiction, poetry, autobiography, and anthropological reportage to raise questions as determinative as one's choice of language, one's presentation of self in society, one's "recovery" of a history. This collection serves as a bridge between recent Eurocentric postmodern discourse dealing with the breakdown of the modernist stability in art, architecture, and electronic media, and those recent studies that problematize the issue of racial identity and literary practice. Cross-Addressing discusses site-specific strategies of resistance to the imposition of identity in the terms imposed or implied by colonizers and their descendants: narrative empowerment, gender reconstruction, racial decategorization, an intersection of marginalities, and a cross-cultural Third World solidarity. The movement is from the individual to the collective, from the particular to the global. The theoretical approach is eclectic, echoing the current split in cultural studies between discussions of the cultural production of meaning, and an involvement in policy debates. The book contends that the heightened consciousness resulting from marginalization not only judges our world, but offers it a window onto its future possibilities. Contributors include Lyn McCredden, Suzette Henke, Trevor James, Mary O'Connor, S.M., Nejd Yaziji, Rosemary Jolly, Bernice Zamora, Gayle Wald, Arturo Aldama, Manuel M. Martín-Rodríquez, Barbara Frey Waxman, Mayfair Mei-hui Yang, Lien Chao, Karin Quimby, and Roger Bromley.

Decolonial Voices

Author : Arturo J. Aldama,Naomi Quiñonez
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253108810

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Decolonial Voices by Arturo J. Aldama,Naomi Quiñonez Pdf

The interdisciplinary essays in Decolonial Voices discuss racialized, subaltern, feminist, and diasporic identities and the aesthetic politics of hybrid and mestiza/o cultural productions. This collection represents several key directions in the field: First, it charts how subaltern cultural productions of the US/ Mexico borderlands speak to the intersections of "local," "hemispheric," and "globalized" power relations of the border imaginary. Second, it recovers the Mexican women's and Chicana literary and cultural heritages that have been ignored by Euro-American canons and patriarchal exclusionary practices. It also expands the field in postnationalist directions by creating an interethnic, comparative, and transnational dialogue between Chicana and Chicano, African American, Mexican feminist, and U.S. Native American cultural vocabularies. Contributors include Norma AlarcÃ3n, Arturo J. Aldama, Frederick Luis Aldama, Cordelia Chávez Candelaria, Alejandra Elenes, RamÃ3n Garcia, MarÃa Herrera-Sobek, Patricia Penn Hilden, Gaye T. M. Johnson, Alberto Ledesma, Pancho McFarland, Amelia MarÃa de la Luz Montes, Laura Elisa Pérez, Naomi Quiñonez, Sarah Ramirez, Rolando J. Romero, Delberto Dario Ruiz, Vicki Ruiz, José David SaldÃvar, Anna Sandoval, and Jonathan Xavier Inda.

Chicana/o Identity in a Changing U.S. Society

Author : Aída Hurtado,Patricia Gurin
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816552382

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Chicana/o Identity in a Changing U.S. Society by Aída Hurtado,Patricia Gurin Pdf

What does it mean to be Chicana/o? That question might not be answered the same as it was a generation ago. As the United States witnesses a major shift in its population—from a white majority to a country where no single group predominates—the new mix not only affects relations between ethnic groups but also influences how individuals view themselves. This book addresses the development of individual and social identity within the context of these new demographic and cultural shifts. It identifies the contemporary forces that shape group identity in order to show how Chicana/os' sense of personal identity and social identity develops and how these identities are affected by changes in social relations. The authors, both nationally recognized experts in social psychology, are concerned with the subjective definitions individuals have about the social groups with which they identify, as well as with linguistic, cultural, and social contexts. Their analysis reveals what the majority of Chicanas/os experience, using examples from music, movies, and the arts to illustrate complex concepts. In considering ¿Quién Soy? ("Who Am I?"), they discuss how individuals develop a positive sense of who they are as Chicanas/os, with an emphasis on the influence of family, schools, and community. Regarding ¿Quiénes Somos? ("Who Are We?"), they explore Chicanas/os' different group memberships that define who they are as a people, particularly reviewing the colonization history of the American Southwest to show how Chicanas/os' group identity is influenced by this history. A chapter on "Language, Culture, and Community" looks at how Chicanas/os define their social identities inside and outside their communities, whether in the classroom, neighborhood, or region. In a final chapter, the authors speculate how Chicana/o identity will change as Chicanas/os become a significant proportion of the U.S. population and as such factors as immigration, intermarriage, and improvements in social standing influence the process of identification. At the end of each chapter is an engaging exercise that reinforces its main argument and shows how psychological approaches are applicable to real life. Chicana/o Identity in a Changing U.S. Society is an unprecedented introduction to psychological issues that students can relate to and understand. It complements other titles in the Mexican American Experience series to provide a balanced view of issues that affect Mexican Americans today.

The Latino/a Condition

Author : Richard Delgado,Jean Stefancic
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814718940

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The Latino/a Condition by Richard Delgado,Jean Stefancic Pdf

Addresses the historical origins of Spanish-speaking people in the United States, the rise of stereotypes, the growth of efforts at self-definition, and related matters

Cultural Studies

Author : Lawrence Grossberg,Janice Radway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990-11-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134940004

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Cultural Studies by Lawrence Grossberg,Janice Radway Pdf

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Conservative Catholicism and the Carmelites

Author : Darryl V. Caterine
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 025334011X

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Conservative Catholicism and the Carmelites by Darryl V. Caterine Pdf

An analysis of conservatism in the American Roman Catholic church

Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Literature and Art

Author : Nicolàs Kanellos,Claudia Esteva-Fabregat,Francisco LomelÕ
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1611921635

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Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Literature and Art by Nicolàs Kanellos,Claudia Esteva-Fabregat,Francisco LomelÕ Pdf

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project is a national project to locate, identify, preserve and make accessible the literary contributions of U.S. Hispanics from colonial times through 1960 in what today comprises the fifty states of the United States.