B. V. OlguÍn is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a poet and co-translator, with Omar Vasquez Barboza, of Cantos de Adolescencia/Songs of Youth by AmÉrico Paredes.

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. La Pinta: History, Culture, and Ideology in Chicana/o Convict Discourse Part One: Land and Liberty Chapter 1. Toward a Materialist History of Chicana/o Criminality: Modesta Avila as Paradigmatic Pinta Chapter 2. Chicana/o Archetypes: Jimmy Santiago Baca and the Pinto Picaresque Part Two: Embodied Discourses Chapter 3. Declamatory Pinto Poetry: The Masculinist Poetics and Materialist Politics of Ricardo SÁnchez's PoesÍa de ChingazosChapter 4. The Pinto Political Unconscious: Tattoos, Abjection, and Agency in RaÚl Salinas's Convict Body Altars Part Three: Crime and Commodification Chapter 5. Hollywood Placas: Semiotics, Spectatorship, and Ideology in American MeChapter 6. The Pinto as Palimpsest: Fred GÓmez Carrasco and the South Texas Culture Wars Part Four: Storming the Tower Chapter 7. Judy Lucero's Gynocritical Prison Poetics and Materialist Chicana Politics Chapter 8. Writing Resistance? Academic Institutions, Ideology, and "Prison Work" Conclusion. Pintos, Human Rights Regimes, and a New Paradigm for U.S. Prisoner Rights Activism Notes Bibliography Index

B. V. OlguÍn is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a poet and co-translator, with Omar Vasquez Barboza, of Cantos de Adolescencia/Songs of Youth by AmÉrico Paredes.

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. La Pinta: History, Culture, and Ideology in Chicana/o Convict Discourse Part One: Land and Liberty Chapter 1. Toward a Materialist History of Chicana/o Criminality: Modesta Avila as Paradigmatic Pinta Chapter 2. Chicana/o Archetypes: Jimmy Santiago Baca and the Pinto Picaresque Part Two: Embodied Discourses Chapter 3. Declamatory Pinto Poetry: The Masculinist Poetics and Materialist Politics of Ricardo SÁnchez's PoesÍa de ChingazosChapter 4. The Pinto Political Unconscious: Tattoos, Abjection, and Agency in RaÚl Salinas's Convict Body Altars Part Three: Crime and Commodification Chapter 5. Hollywood Placas: Semiotics, Spectatorship, and Ideology in American MeChapter 6. The Pinto as Palimpsest: Fred GÓmez Carrasco and the South Texas Culture Wars Part Four: Storming the Tower Chapter 7. Judy Lucero's Gynocritical Prison Poetics and Materialist Chicana Politics Chapter 8. Writing Resistance? Academic Institutions, Ideology, and "Prison Work" Conclusion. Pintos, Human Rights Regimes, and a New Paradigm for U.S. Prisoner Rights Activism Notes Bibliography Index

B. V. OlguÍn is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a poet and co-translator, with Omar Vasquez Barboza, of Cantos de Adolescencia/Songs of Youth by AmÉrico Paredes.

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. La Pinta: History, Culture, and Ideology in Chicana/o Convict Discourse Part One: Land and Liberty Chapter 1. Toward a Materialist History of Chicana/o Criminality: Modesta Avila as Paradigmatic Pinta Chapter 2. Chicana/o Archetypes: Jimmy Santiago Baca and the Pinto Picaresque Part Two: Embodied Discourses Chapter 3. Declamatory Pinto Poetry: The Masculinist Poetics and Materialist Politics of Ricardo SÁnchez's PoesÍa de ChingazosChapter 4. The Pinto Political Unconscious: Tattoos, Abjection, and Agency in RaÚl Salinas's Convict Body Altars Part Three: Crime and Commodification Chapter 5. Hollywood Placas: Semiotics, Spectatorship, and Ideology in American MeChapter 6. The Pinto as Palimpsest: Fred GÓmez Carrasco and the South Texas Culture Wars Part Four: Storming the Tower Chapter 7. Judy Lucero's Gynocritical Prison Poetics and Materialist Chicana Politics Chapter 8. Writing Resistance? Academic Institutions, Ideology, and "Prison Work" Conclusion. Pintos, Human Rights Regimes, and a New Paradigm for U.S. Prisoner Rights Activism Notes Bibliography Index