Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography
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 visu
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JUAN VELASCO
Literatures of the Americas Series Editor Norma E.Cantú KANSAS CITY, Missouri, USA
This series seeks to bring forth contemporary critical interventions within a hemispheric perspective, with an emphasis on perspectives from Latin America. Books in the series will highlight work that explores concerns in literature in different cultural contexts across historical and geographical boundaries and will also include work on the specific Latina/o realities in the US. Designed to explore key questions confronting contemporary issues of literary and cultural import, Literatures of the Americas will be rooted in traditional approaches to literary criticism but will seek to include cutting edge theoretical interventions such as postcolonial and feminist critical approaches.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14819
Juan Velasco
Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography
Juan Velasco Santa Clara University Santa Clara, California, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-59771-7 ISBN 978-1-137-59540-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59540-9
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WHY CHICANA/O AUTOBIOGRAPHY: A PREFACE
My interest in Chicana/o literature began at age 16, when I discovered, quite by chance, one of the quintessential poems of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement, “I am Joaquín.” The poem was powerful and the call for freedom resonated deeply with some of my own struggles. Autobiographical expression became an important question for me when, later, I discovered that the author of the poem “I am Joaquín” was Corky Gonz
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