Chicana/o Subjectivity and the Politics of Identity [electronic resource] : Between Recognition and Revolution /
Gallego, C.author.
This book traces the influence of Hegel's theory of recognition on different literary representations of Chicano/a subjectivity, with the aim of demonstrating how the identity thinking characteristic of Hegel's theory is unwillingly reinforced even in subjects that are represented as rebelling against liberal-humanist ideologies.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-242) and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Between Revolution and Recognition * Part One--From Epic Nationalism to Borderland Identities: Defining Subjectivity in Chicano/a Poetics * Epic Aspirations: I Am Joaqui;n and the Creation of Chicano Subjectivity * The Multicultural Turn: New Mestiza Subjectivity in Late Capitalist Society * Part Two--Re-Cognizing Revolutionary Subjectivity: The Structuralist Turn in Chicano/a Literature * The Structuralist (Re)Turn: Embodied Agency in Chicano/a Poetics * Topographies of Resistance: Cognitive Mapping and Revolutionary Action in Rivera and Viramontes * Part Three--Non-Identity and the Truth of the Real: Narratives of Life Experience in Acosta and Pineda * Universalism and the Identity Politics of American Democracy: Oscar "Zeta" Acosta and the Dialectics of (Mis)Recognition * Universality at the Margins: Cecile Pineda's Face and the Horrific Truth of Non-Identity * Conclusion--"Beckett is a Chicano!": Antihumanist Universality in Chicano/a Literary Studies.
This book traces the influence of Hegel's theory of recognition on different literary representations of Chicano/a subjectivity, with the aim of demonstrating how the identity thinking characteristic of Hegel's theory is unwillingly reinforced even in subjects that are represented as rebelling against liberal-humanist ideologies.
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