Chicana/o subjectivity and the politics of identity
Subtitle: between recognition and revolution
By: Carlos Gallego
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780230111356
Subjects: Mexican Americans; Research
Description: "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. Conversely, the author also analyzes alternative representations that circumvent the shortcomings of Hegelian recognition by redefining universality as founded on the non-identity of the void, thereby foregrounding a more radically inclusive democratic project. Methodologically, the author utilize the anti-humanism of a psychoanalytic-Marxist approach as a means of showing how identity functions as the most fundamental of ideological principles. This re-thinking of subjectivity poses a challenge to identity politics that either advocate the false universality of ideological sameness or promote the celebration of difference as unique and privileged. "--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Between Revolution and Recognition * Part One; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: "Beckett is a Chicano!": Antihumanist Universality in Chicano/a Literary Studies.