Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography

AvJuan Velasco

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

The first book length study of this genre, Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography facilitates new understandings of how people and cultures are displaced and reinvent themselves.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-05-30
Mått:148 x 210 x undefined mm
Vikt:331 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Literatures of the Americas
Antal sidor:236
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349955787

Utforska kategorier

Samhälle och kultur inom Samhälle och politik
Konstböcker inom Kultur
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Juan Velasco is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Modern Languages at Santa Clara University, USA where he teaches courses in non-fiction creative writing, autobiography and Latina/o literature. He is the author of Las fronteras móviles: tradición, modernidad y la búsqueda de ‘lo mexicano’ en la Literatura Chicana contemporánea (2003) and his academic publications have appeared in Latino/a Literature In The Classroom: 21st Century Approaches to Teaching, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama; Expanding the Circle: Creating an Inclusive Environment in Higher Education for LGBTQ Students and Studies, edited by John Hawley; and in Ethnic Literatures and Transnationalism, edited by Aparajita Nanda.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface.- Introduction: Beyond the Hunger of Memories.- Automitografia.- Crossings.- Culture As Resistance.- Making Familia From Scratch.- The New Mestizas.- Canicular Consciousness.- Bibliography.