Elizabeth Jacobs

Mexican American Literature

The Politics of Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting an up-to-date critical perspective as well as a cultural, political and historical context, this book is an excellent introduction to Mexican American literature, affording readers the major novels, drama and poetry. This volume presents fresh and original readings of major works, and with its historiographic and cultural analyses, impressively delivers key information to the reader.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780415364904
• ISBN-10: 0415364906
• Artikelnr.: 22423849

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Jacobs is Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Chicano Movement The Development of
Mexican American Political Activism Reies Lopez Tijerina and the Alianza
Federal de Mercedes César Chávez and the Farmworkers Union (UFW) The
Student Organisations and Protest The Crusade for Justice Achievements of
the Chicano Movement The Decline of the Chicano Movement 2. Chicana
Feminism Chicana and American Feminism Women and the Movement Chicana
Activism Postmovement Politics 3. Critical Approaches to Chicana/o
Literature Culturalist Criticism Formalist Criticism Historical Dialectical
The Postmodern Feminist Criticism Feminist Theory Chicana Feminist Theory
Chicana Cultural Critique 4. The Relationship Between Chicano and Chicana
Literature 5. Mexican American Theatre and the Politics of Chicana/o
Identity 6. Women, Confinement and Familia Ideology 7. The Search for
Aztlán: The Chicano Nation 8. Mestiza Aztlán: A Nation Without Borders
Conclusion Notes Bibliography