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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKenna, Teresa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Mexican American authors.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Literature and society.

History.

United States.

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.

Mexican Americans in literature.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

xii, 158 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1997.

Summary:

Migration and continuity have shaped both the Chicano people and their oral and written literature. In this pathfinding study of Chicano literature, Teresa McKenna specifically explores how these works arise out of social, political, and psychological conflict and how the development of Chicano literature is inextricably embedded in this fact.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-153) and index.

ISBN:

0292765185

0292751885

OCLC:

35159152