Alurista. Gary Soto. Bernice Zamora. Jose Montoya. These names,
luminous to some, remain unknown to those who have not yet
discovered the rich variety of late twentieth century Chicano
poetry. With the flowering of the Chicano Movement in the mid-1960s
came not only increased political awareness for many Mexican
Americans but also a body of fine creative writing. Now the major
voices of Chicano literature have begun to reach the wider audience
they deserve. Bruce-Novoa's Chicano Poetry: A Response to Chaos-the
first booklength critical study of Chicano poetry-examines the most
significant works of a body of literature that has grown
dramatically in size and importance in less than two decades. Here
are insightful new readings of the major writings of Abelardo
Delgado, Sergio Elizondo, Rodolfo Gonzales, Miguel Mendez, J. L.
Navarro, Raul Salinas, Ricardo Sanchez, and Tino Villanueva, as
well as Alurista, Soto, Zamora, and Montoya. Close textual analyses
of such important works as I Am Joaquin, Restless Serpents, and
Floricanto en Aztlan enrich and deepen our understanding of their
imagery, themes, structure, and meaning. Bruce-Novoa argues that
Chicano poetry responds to the threat of loss, whether of hero,
barrio, family, or tradition. Thus Jose Montoya elegizes a dead
Pachuco in "El Louie," and Raul Salinas laments the disappearance
of a barrio in "A Trip through the Mind Jail." But this elegy at
the heart of Chicano poetry is both lament and celebration, for it
expresses the group's continuing vitality and strength. Common to
twentieth-century poetry is the preoccupation with time, death, and
alienation, and the work of Chicano poets-sometimes seen as outside
the traditions of world literature-shares these concerns.
Bruce-Novoa brilliantly defines both the unique and the universal
in Chicano poetry.
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