Migrant song : politics and process in contemporary Chicano literature / Teresa McKenna.

Author/creator McKenna, Teresa
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoAustin : University of Texas Press, 1997.
Descriptionxii, 158 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
American literature--Mexican American authors. --History and criticism.
American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Politics and literature--United States. --History. --20th century.
Politics and literature--Mexico. --History. --20th century.
Literature and society--United States. --History. --20th century.
Literature and society--Mexico. --History. --20th century.
Mexican Americans--Intellectual life.
Mexican Americans in literature.

Contents Prologue. Parto de palabra : the many births of the migrant song -- "In our own land" : politics and cultural process in contemporary Chicano literature -- Chicano poetry and the political age : the Canales/Córdova corridos as social drama -- "On lies, secrets, and silence" : hunger of memory as autobiography : a comparative perspective -- Power reversals and the comic : Rolando Hinojosa as a political writer -- Engendering the border : toward a Chicana literary aesthetic -- Epilogue. Borderness and pedagogy : exposing culture in the classroom.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [147]-153) and index.
LCCN 96025379
ISBN0292765185 (alk. paper)
ISBN0292751885 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS153.M4 M55 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold