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The Chicano Studies Reader, the best-selling anthology of articles
from Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, has been newly expanded
with a group of essays that focus on Chicana/o and Latina/o youth.
This section, Generations against Exclusion, joins Decolonizing the
Territory, Performing Politics, (Re)Configuring Identities,
Remapping the World, and Continuing to Push Boundaries.
Introductions to each section offer analysis and contextualization.
This fourth edition of the Reader documents the foundation of
Chicano studies, testifies to its broad disciplinary range, and
explores its continuing development.
Focusing on the often unrecognized role race plays in expressions
of Chicano culture, "Mestizaje" is a provocative exploration of the
volatility and mutability of racial identities. In this important
moment in Chicano studies, Rafael Perez-Torres reveals how the
concepts and realities of race, historical memory, the body, and
community have both constrained and opened possibilities for
forging new and potentially liberating multiracial identities.
Informed by a broad-ranging theoretical investigation of identity
politics and race and incorporating feminist and queer critiques,
Perez-Torres skillfully analyzes Chicano cultural production.
Contextualizing the history of mestizaje, he shows how the concept
of mixed race has been used to engage issues of hybridity and voice
and examines the dynamics that make mestizo and mestiza identities
resistant to, as well as affirmative of, dominant forms of power.
He also addresses the role that mestizaje has played in expressive
culture, including the hip-hop music of Cypress Hill and the
vibrancy of Chicano poster art. Turning to issues of mestizaje in
literary creation, Perez-Torres offers critical readings of the
works of Emma Perez, Gil Cuadros, and Sandra Cisneros, among
others. This book concludes with a consideration of the role that
the mestizo body plays as a site of elusive or displaced knowledge.
Moving beyond the oppositions--nationalism versus assimilation, men
versus women, Texans versus Californians--that have characterized
much of Chicano studies, "Mestizaje" synthesizes and assesses
twenty-five years of pathbreaking thinking to make a case for the
core components, sensibilities, and concerns of the discipline.
RafaelPerez-Torres is professor of English at the University of
California, Los Angeles. He is author of "Movements in Chicano
Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins," coauthor of "To Alcatraz,
Death Row, and Back: Memories of an East LA Outlaw," and coeditor
of "The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlan, 1970-2000."
Interpreting specific poems by some of the best known Chicano writers, this book studies the central aesthetic and thematic concerns recent Chicano poetry addresses. Drawing on current theories of postmodernity and postcoloniality, it places a "minority" literature within the central concerns of contemporary literary and cultural studies. The book addresses the most important issues related to Chicano identity, especially focusing on the contribution women writers and thinkers have made in articulating this identity.
Interpreting specific poems by some of the best known Chicano
writers, this book studies the central aesthetic and thematic
concerns recent Chicano poetry addresses. Drawing on current
theories of postmodernity and postcoloniality, it places a
"minority" literature within the central concerns of contemporary
literary and cultural studies. The book addresses the most
important issues related to Chicano identity, especially focusing
on the contribution women writers and thinkers have made in
articulating this identity.
Recent debates about globalism have usefully transformed the
positioning and the cultural geography of studies of the American
South. Once marked by tensions between the national and the
regional, southern studies is now increasingly characterized by
tensions between the local and the global. This special issue of
American Literature features interdisciplinary and comparative work
that focuses on the U.S. South in global contexts and attempts to
reconceptualize the South from various theoretical, literary, and
cultural perspectives. The new southern studies promises to be less
preoccupied with patriarchal whiteness and rural idyll and more
concerned with understanding the U.S. South as a construction of
border crossings of every sort. Featured essays examine the
political, economic, and social effects of globalization on the
geopolitical locale and literary productions of the region. Each
seeks to redefine the geographic and epistemological boundaries of
the U.S. South by linking it to other "Souths" globally. The issue
opens with a collection of manifestos given at the recent
conference "The U.S. South in Global Context." These unique pieces
offer variant perspectives on a common theme. Touching on history,
community, migration, globalizing modernization, and even Wal-Mart,
these sixteen briefs remind the reader that the American South is
somewhere between the modern cosmopolitan and the historical rural
spheres. One contributor examines how modernization has spread
unevenly throughout the region and how it has affected recent
immigrants to southern hybrid culture. Another engages in a
comparative exercise between the U.S. South and Latin America,
addressing questions of postcolonialism. Other contributors reflect
on southern distinctiveness, southern literature, and southern
colonial life. Included in the issue is a collection of original
and review essays focused geographically on still lower latitudes:
investigations of the Deep South and certain Caribbean cultures,
and comparisons of the U.S. South to the underprivileged global
South.
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