Ends of Assimilation : The Formation of Chicano Literature

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cutler, John Alba.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.

Local Subjects:

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

Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cary : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Ends of Assimilation compares sociological and Chicano/a (Mexican American) literary representations of assimilation.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Representing Race, Producing Culture:Chicano/a Literature and the Sociology of Assimilation""; ""Ends of Assimilation""; ""Disjunctive Histories""; ""Assimilation as Ideology""; ""The Formation of Chicano/a Literature""; ""1. Becoming Mexican-American Literature""; ""The Mexican-American Generation""; ""“The First Mexican-American�""; ""Pocho�s Racial Boundaries""; ""Nation Time(s) in George Washington Gómez""; ""Gendered Assimilation in Caballero""; ""Chicano/a Politics of Reception""

""2. Quinto Sol, Chicano/a Literature, and the Long MarchThrough Institutions""""Literature, Cultural Capital, Universities""; ""Assimilation Sociology and Structural Inequality""; ""Quinto Sol Literature and Chicano/a Cultural Nationalism""; ""Literary Discourse in Estampas del Valle""; ""Rethinking the University in Rain of Scorpions""; ""3. Cultural Capital and the Singularity of Literature in Hungerof Memory and The Rain God""; ""“Two Strong Men� ""; ""Hunger of Memory�s Symbolic Capital""; ""Masculine Alienation in The Rain God""; ""Neoliberal Assimilation""

""“The Poems are Signs that Tell Us Things�""""6. Disappeared Men: Chicano/a Authenticity and the AmericanWar in Viet Nam""; ""Remembering Viet Nam, Remembering the Movement ""; ""“The Buzz of the Reel� ""; ""Gods Go Begging and the Coloniality of Power ""; ""Border Thinking in Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility""; ""Besieged Authenticities in Their Dogs Came With Them""; ""Disappeared Men""; ""Conclusion""; ""Assimilation “Is Now Condemned� ""; ""What Was Chicano/a Literature?""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""

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ISBN:

0-19-021013-3

OCLC:

922973201