Author

Publication

2016-07-29 - Palgrave Macmillan

Language

English

Word Count

59,000 words, Guess

Page Count

236 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • AmazonB01J9P3DSW

Classifications

  • LCCPN1-PN6790
  • LCCPS366.M49 V45 2016

Description

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. Through the examination of visual arts and literature, Juan Velasco analyzes the space for self-expression that gave way to a new paradigm in contemporary Chicana/o autobiography. By bringing together self-representation with complex theoretical work around culture, ethnicity, race, gender, sex, and nationality, this work is at the crossroads of intersectional analysis and engages with scholarship on the creation of cross-border communities, the liberatory dimensions of cultural survival, and the reclaiming of new art fashioned against the mechanisms of violence that Mexican-Americans have endured.

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Other Editions

  • Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o AutobiographyHardcoverPalgrave Macmillan2016-07-29

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