Migrant song
Subtitle: politics and process in contemporary Chicano literature
By: Teresa McKenna.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Emigration and immigration in literature.; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Politics and literature -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century.; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Literature and society -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century.; Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life.; Mexican Americans in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-153) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. Parto de palabra : the many births of the migrant song; title: "In our own land" : politics and cultural process in contemporary Chicano literature; title: Chicano poetry and the political age : the Canales/Córdova corridos as social drama; title: "On lies, secrets, and silence" : hunger of memory as autobiography : a comparative perspective; title: Power reversals and the comic : Rolando Hinojosa as a political writer; title: Engendering the border : toward a Chicana literary aesthetic; title: Epilogue. Borderness and pedagogy : exposing culture in the classroom.