Movements in Chicano Poetry
Subtitle: Against Myths, against Margins (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 24, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780521470193
Subjects: Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; Poetry texts & anthologies; Mexican Americans; Hispanic American Poetry; American English; Literary Criticism; USA; Mexican Americans in literature; American poetry--Mexican American authors--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; History and criticism; American poetry; Intellectual life; Mexican American authors
First sentence: BECAUSE "-" IN "MEXICAN-AMERICAN" suggests both a (linguistic) bridge and a (mathematical) absence, it serves as an apt marker for the condition of Chicano literary criticism.