Movements in Chicano Poetry

Movements in Chicano Poetry PDF Author: Rafael Pèrez-Torres
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521478038
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Studies the central concerns addressed by recent Chicano poetry.

Movements in Chicano Poetry

Movements in Chicano Poetry PDF Author: Rafael Pèrez-Torres
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521478038
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Book Description
Studies the central concerns addressed by recent Chicano poetry.

Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems

Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems PDF Author: José E. Limón
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520076338
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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"José Limón is one of our most interesting and important commentators on Chicano culture. . . . [This book] will help strengthen an important style of historically and politically accountable cultural analysis."—Michael M. J. Fischer, co-author of Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition

Chicano Poetry

Chicano Poetry PDF Author: Juan Bruce-Novoa
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292762364
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Alurista. Gary Soto. Bernice Zamora. José 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 Méndez, J. L. Navarro, Raúl Salinas, Ricardo Sánchez, and Tino Villanueva, as well as Alurista, Soto, Zamora, and Montoya. Close textual analyses of such important works as I Am Joaquín, Restless Serpents, and Floricanto en Aztlán 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 José Montoya elegizes a dead Pachuco in "El Louie," and Raúl 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.

Chicano Poet 1970-2010

Chicano Poet 1970-2010 PDF Author: Reyes Cárdenas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984441556
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
This book is an anthology of 372 poems by Reyes Cárdenas, spanning from 1970 to 2010. Many poems reflect the Chicano experience and the times they were written.

Contemporary Chicana Poetry

Contemporary Chicana Poetry PDF Author: Marta Ester Sánchez
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520052628
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Book Description
Discusses 4 Chicana poets' "dilemmas of their dual relationship to American and Mexican societies and of their dual identity as Chicanas and as women writing in a contemporary setting."

The Elements of San Joaquin

The Elements of San Joaquin PDF Author: Gary Soto
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452171955
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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A timely new edition of a pioneering work in Latino literature, National Book Award nominee Gary Soto's first collection (originally published in 1977) draws on California's fertile San Joaquin Valley, the people, the place, and the hard agricultural work done there by immigrants. In these poems, joy and anger, violence and hope are placed in both the metaphorical and very real circumstances of the Valley. Rooted in personal experiences—of the poet as a young man, his friends, family, and neighbors—the poems are spare but expansive, with Soto's voice as important as ever. This welcome new edition has been expanded with a crucial selection of complementary poems (some previously unpublished) and a new introduction by the author.

Triple Crown

Triple Crown PDF Author: Roberto Durán
Publisher: Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Book Description
Presents three full-length collections of poetry by three important Latino poets, Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban-American.

From the Other Side of Night

From the Other Side of Night PDF Author:
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816522309
Category : Poetry
Languages : es
Pages : 248

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Book Description
The Chicano poet offers a collection of poems from the last fifteen years, including fourteen new works that discuss love, sex, and AIDS.

Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff

Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff PDF Author: Sara Borjas
Publisher: Noemi Press
ISBN: 9781934819791
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Poetry. California Interest. Latinx Studies. HEART LIKE A WINDOW, MOUTH LIKE A CLIFF is a transgressive, yet surprisingly tender confrontation of what it means to want to flee the thing you need most. The speaker struggles through cultural assimilation and the pressure to "act" Mexican while dreaming of the privileges of whiteness. Borjas holds cultural traditions accountable for the gendered denial of Chicanas to individuate and love deeply without allowing one's love to consume the self. This is nothing new. This is colonization working through relationships within Chicanx families--how we learn love and perform it, how we filter it though alcohol abuse--how ultimately, we oppress the people we love most. This collection simultaneously reveres and destroys nostalgia, slips out of the story after a party where the reader can find God "drunk and dreaming." Think golden oldiez meets the punk attitude of No Doubt. Think pochas sipping gin martinis in lowriders cruising down Who Gives a Fuck Boulevard.

Mexican Jazz

Mexican Jazz PDF Author: Israel F. Haros Lopez
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533261953
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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A Non-linear Graphic Novel . Poetry and Illustrations about women and children in detention centers and the current dangers of migrating to the united states.