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 | | Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Alfred Arteaga ISBN-10: 9780521573702 ISBN-10: 0-521-57370-X ISBN-13: 9780521573702 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-57370-2 Hardcover 1997-07-28 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities examines the crossing of literary and social forces that forms the context for being Chicano. Heterotextual poetics reveals how a poetry of the cross can influence identity, in readings ranging from the poetry of gender and race by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to that of the fragmentary, postmodern subject of Juan Felipe Herrara. Heterotextuality is the medium in which xicanismo is articulated and comes to be a hybrid subject of textual difference. | ||
Book Description Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities examines the crossing of literary and social forces that forms the context for being Chicano. Heterotextual poetics reveals how a poetry of the cross can influence identity, in readings ranging from the poetry of gender and race by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to that of the fragmentary, postmodern subject of Juan Felipe Herrara. Heterotextuality is the medium in which xicanismo is articulated and comes to be a hybrid subject of textual difference. | ||
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best read in Spanish Arteaga provides a scholarly analysis of the complexities of Chicano poetry and literature. The book delves into the mixture of Spanish, Mexican and native American influences. Some writers hark back to a Spanish heritage, while others keen to a Mexican influence. The region covered encompasses both Mexico and the United States. It is clear, though, that the analysis would be best appreciated by those who know Spanish, and have already read most of the authors, in that language. What we get here is necessarily a filtered picture in English that may unavoidably have left out some nuances. | ||