Rethinking the borderlands : between Chicano culture and legal discourse / Carl Gutiérrez-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl, author.

Series:

Latinos in American society and culture ; Volume 4.

Latinos in American Society and Culture Series ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

Law and literature--Social aspects--United States.

Law and literature.

Mexican Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--Intellectual life.

Mexican Americans--Historiography.

Mexican Americans in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectivity in the United States, Carl Gutiérrez-Jones argues that Chicano history has been consistently shaped by racially biased, combative legal interactions. Rethinking the Borderlands is an insightful and provocative exploration of the ways Chicano and Chicana artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers engage this history in order to resist the disenfranchising effects of legal institutions, including the prison and the court. Gutiérrez-Jones examines the process by which Chicanos have become associated with criminality in both our legal institutions and our mainstream popular culture and thereby offers a new way of understanding minority social experience. Drawing on gender studies and psychoanalysis, as well as critical legal and race studies, Gutiérrez-Jones's approach to the law and legal discourse reveals the high stakes involved when concepts of social justice are fought out in the home, in the workplace and in the streets.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Legal Rhetoric and Cultural Critique: An Institutional Context for Reading Chicano Narrative

2. Mission Denial: The Development of Historical Amnesia

3. "Rancho Mexicana, USA" under Siege

4. Consensual Fictions

5. A Social Context for Mourning and Mourning's Sublimation

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520914858

0520914856

9780585078816

0585078815

OCLC:

1163878015