Movements in Chicano Poetry Against Myths, against Margins [Paperback]

Studies the central concerns addressed by recent Chicano poetry.Interpreting poems by some of the best known writers, this book studies the aesthetic and thematic concerns addressed by recent Chicano poetry. It places a minority literature within contemporary literary and cultural studies, drawing on current theories of postmodernity and postcoloniality.Interpreting poems by some of the best known writers, this book studies the aesthetic and thematic concerns addressed by recent Chicano poetry. It places a minority literature within contemporary literary and cultural studies, drawing on current theories of postmodernity and postcoloniality.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.1. Introduction: movements in a 'minority' literature; Part I: The Postcolonial: 2. Four or five worlds - Chicano: a literary criticism as postcolonial discourse; 3. From the homeland to the borderlands, the reformation of 'Aztl?n'; 4. Locality, locotes and the politics of displacement; Part II. The Postmodern: 5. Migratory readings: Chicana/o literary criticism and the postmodern; 6. Mythic 'memory' and cultural construction; 7. Mouthing off - polyglossia and radical mestizaje; Part III. Confluences: 8. Between worlds.