Chicano novels and the politics of form
Subtitle: race, class, and reification
By: Marcial González.
Series: Class: culture
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780472070459; 9780472050451
Subjects: American fiction -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- United States; Literature and society -- United States; Fiction -- Technique; Mexican Americans in literature; Social classes in literature; Ethnic relations in literature; Race in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beyond reification: the cultural logic of Chicano novels; title: An aesthetic solution to objective problems: liberalism in Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the don; title: Cultural nationalism and the formal logic of a style: Acosta's The revolt of the cockroach people; title: The dereification of cultural authenticity: Santiago's Famous all over town; title: Reified identities and the fetishism of narrative form: Pineda's Face and Frieze.