Aztlán Essays on the Chicano Homeland. Revised and Expanded Edition. / edited by Rudolfo Anaya, Francisco A. Lomelí and Enrique R. Lamadrid

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lamadrid, Enrique R., editor of compilation.

Lomelí, Francisco A., editor of compilation.

Anaya, Rudolfo A., editor of compilation.

Series:

Querencias series.

Querencias series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.

Mexican Americans.

Aztlán.

Aztec mythology.

Mexican Americans--History.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Revised and expanded edition

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press [2017]

Summary:

This expanded new edition of the classic 1989 collection of essays about Aztlán weighs its value.

Contents:

Front Cover

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Revisiting the Vision of Aztlán: Origins, Interpretations, and Theory vis-à-vis Fact and Fiction / Francisco A. Lomelí

Part 1: Aztlán as Myth and Historical Conscience

1: El plan espiritual de Aztlán

2: Aztlán: A Homeland without Boundaries / Rudolfo Anaya

3: The Archaic, Historical, and Mythicized Dimensions of Aztlán / Michael Pina

4: Spanish Colonial Mapmakers and the Search for Aztlán, Teguayo, Copala, and the Siete Cuevas / Joseph P. Sánchez

5: The Aztec Palimpsest: Toward a New Understanding of Aztlán, Cultural Identity, and History / Daniel Cooper Alarcón

6: Aztlán: Myth and Historical Consciousness of the Chicano People / Cosme Zaragoza

Translated by Francisco A. Lomelí

Part 2: Historicizing the Dialectics of Aztlán

7: In Search of Aztlán / Luis Leal

Translated by Gladys Leal

8: Myth and Reality: Observations on American Myths and the Myth of Aztlán / E. A. Mares

9: The Vicissitudes Of Aztlán / Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe

10: Aztlán, Montezuma, and New Mexico: The Political Uses of American Indian Mythology / Ramón A. Gutiérrez

Part 3: Redefining Aztlán as a Discursive Concept

11: Refiguring Aztlán / Rafael Pérez-Torres

12: The Homeland, Aztlán/El otro México / Gloria Anzaldúa

13: Queer Aztlán: The Re-Formation of Chicano Tribe / Cherríe Moraga

14: Return to Aztlán: The Chicano Rediscovers His Indian Past / Guillermo Lux and Maurilio E. Vigil

15: Aztlán, Cíbola, and Frontier New Spain / John R. Chávez

Part 4: Comparative Applications of Aztlán

16: Myth and Comparative Cultural Nationalism: The Ideological Uses of Aztlán / Genaro M. Padilla

17: Aztlán, Borinquen, and Hispanic Nationalism in the United States / J. Jorge Klor de Alva.

18: The Nativist Aztlán: Fantasies and Anxieties of Whiteness on the Border / Lee Bebout

19: Myth, Identity, and Struggle in Three Chicano Novels: Aztlán, Anaya, Méndez, and Acosta / Alurista

20: ABC: Aztlán, the Borderlands, and Chicago / Sergio D. Elizondo

Contributors

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8263-5676-1

OCLC:

1273307143