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Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form: Race, Class, and Reification; Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities
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Gonzalez et al. as discussed by the authors explored the relationship between race and class and between politics and literary form in major works of Chicano literature over the last hundred years, focusing on the fiction of five writers whose work spans a century: Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Danny Santiago, and Cecile Pineda.Abstract:
The field of Mexican American fiction has exploded since the 1990s, yet there has been relatively little critical assessment of this burgeoning area in American literature. \"Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form\" is a provocative and timely study of literary form that focuses on the fiction of five writers whose work spans a century: Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Danny Santiago, and Cecile Pineda.Drawing on the Marxist concept of reification to examine the connections between social history and narrative, Marcial Gonzalez highlights the relationship between race and class in these works and situates them as historical responses to Mexican American racial, political, and social movements since the late nineteenth century.The book sheds light on the relationship between politics and form in the novel, an issue that has long intrigued literary scholars. This timely and original study will appeal to scholars and students of American literature, ethnic studies, Latino studies, critical race theory, and Marxist literary theory.This book explores the relationship between race and class and between politics and literary form in major works of Chicano literature over the last hundred years.read more
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Extravagant Passing: Spanish Masquerade in the American Literary Imagination - eScholarship
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the figure and narrative of Spanish masquerade in the history of passing in American literature and culture, beginning with Spanish historias and English histories in the 16th and 17th centuries that provide a frame for the study of 19th century Chicana/o and African American literature.
Whence the other speaks: A transnational approach to home and discourse in the fictional narratives of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and Teresa de la Parra
TL;DR: This article explored how María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and Teresa de la Parra's novels manipulate dominant discourses through different linguistic and narrative strategies that privilege the other, ultimately rendering the discursive object into a subject, a speaking agent who reclaims the power of voice.
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Archivization and Its Alternatives: Toward a Critique of Chicana/o Religions and Spiritualities
TL;DR: In this paper, Carrasco and Perez argue that a critique of archival memory is central to debates on religion and spirituality in Chicana/o literary and cultural studies, and they conclude with the suggestion that Chicana-o religious and spirituality might be read as a question of the archive.
Extravagant Passing: Spanish Masquerade in the American Literary Imagination - eScholarship
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the figure and narrative of Spanish masquerade in the history of passing in American literature and culture, beginning with Spanish historias and English histories in the 16th and 17th centuries that provide a frame for the study of 19th century Chicana/o and African American literature.
Suspending the Desire for Recognition: Coloniality of Being, the Dialectics of Death, and Chicana/o Literature
TL;DR: Gonzalez as discussed by the authors examines Chicana/o literature produced between 1968 to the turn of the century to deconstruct the process of racial alienation and the struggle for dis-alienation represented in the critical imagination of writers who occupy the position of what Ramon Grosfoguel (2005) has referred to as "colonial racial subjects."
In the margins: Thresholds of text and identity in U.S.-Mexico border literature
TL;DR: In this paper, Ruiz de Burton's project links discussions of U.S.-Mexico border literature's emphasis on marginalized identity with the growing textual studies interest in the marginal, often-invisible processes which aid the production and shape the reception of books.