Chicana/o subjectivity and the politics of identity : between recognition and revolution / Carlos Gallego.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallego, Carlos, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Research.

Mexican Americans.

Physical Description:

250 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

"This book traces the influence of Hegel's theory of recognition on different literary representations of Chicano/a subjectivity, with the aim of demonstrating how the identity thinking characteristic of Hegel's theory is unwillingly reinforced even in subjects that are represented as rebelling against liberal-humanist ideologies. Conversely, the author also analyzes alternative representations that circumvent the shortcomings of Hegelian recognition by redefining universality as founded on the non-identity of the void, thereby foregrounding a more radically inclusive democratic project. Methodologically, the author utilize the anti-humanism of a psychoanalytic-Marxist approach as a means of showing how identity functions as the most fundamental of ideological principles. This re-thinking of subjectivity poses a challenge to identity politics that either advocate the false universality of ideological sameness or promote the celebration of difference as unique and privileged. "-- Provided by publisher.4

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Introduction: Between Revolution and Recognition * Part One

From Epic Nationalism to Borderland Identities: Defining Subjectivity in Chicano/a Poetics * Epic Aspirations: I Am Joaqui;n and the Creation of Chicano Subjectivity * The Multicultural Turn: New Mestiza Subjectivity in Late Capitalist Society * Part Two

Re-Cognizing Revolutionary Subjectivity: The Structuralist Turn in Chicano/a Literature * The Structuralist (Re)Turn: Embodied Agency in Chicano/a Poetics * Topographies of Resistance: Cognitive Mapping and Revolutionary Action in Rivera and Viramontes * Part Three

Non-Identity and the Truth of the Real: Narratives of Life Experience in Acosta and Pineda * Universalism and the Identity Politics of American Democracy: Oscar "Zeta" Acosta and the Dialectics of (Mis)Recognition * Universality at the Margins: Cecile Pineda's Face and the Horrific Truth of Non-Identity * Conclusion

"Beckett is a Chicano!": Antihumanist Universality in Chicano/a Literary Studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-242)

ISBN:

9780230111356

0230111351

OCLC:

666237436