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Reconstructing a Chicano/A Literary Heritage: Hispanic Colonial Literature of the Southwest - Softcover
Early literary works written in Spanish in what is today the Amer. SW have been largely excluded from the corpus of Amer. lit., yet these documents are the literary antecedents of contemporary Chicano & Chicana writing. This vol. examines texts ranging from Cabeza de Vaca's "Relacion" to Perez de Villagra's "Historia de la Nueva Mexico," written in Spanish during the Spanish colonial & Mexican periods. Using contemporary literary theory, Chicano scholars challenge commonly held perceptions of both Amer. lit. & contemporary Chicano lit. in order to demonstrate a certain continuity with each tradition. These essays conceptualize Chicano/a lit. in a new perspective & make a major contribution to both Chicano/a historiography & Amer. studies.
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Text: English, Spanish
Review:
"Using contemporary literary theory, these Chicano scholars challenge commonly held perceptions of both American literature and contemporary Chicano literature in order to demonstrate a certain continuity with each tradition, both despite and because of cultural ruptures surrounding the production of these texts." —Western American Literature
"It represents a significant deviation from the typical negative views of Chicano literary writers on traditional literary theory. . . . An objective search for these roots [of modern Chicano literature] leads to the discovery of several outstanding contributions by Spanish writers of the colonial period."—Choice
"It represents a significant deviation from the typical negative views of Chicano literary writers on traditional literary theory. . . . An objective search for these roots [of modern Chicano literature] leads to the discovery of several outstanding contributions by Spanish writers of the colonial period."—Choice
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- PublisherUniv. of Arizona Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0756792363
- ISBN 13 9780756792367
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages213
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