American Literature · 1998 · 50 citations · 0 references
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Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities explores how linguistic, political, and poetic forces intersect to shape Chicano identity. The study shows that heterotextual poetry—drawing on works from Sor Juana to Juan Felipe Herrera, Bernal Diaz to Gloria Anzaldua, and Octavio Paz—shapes identity by framing the borderlands as a hybrid, postcolonial space.
Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities examines the crossing of literary and social forces – be they linguistic, political, poetic - that forms the context for being Chicano. It reveals how a poetry of the cross can influence identity, in readings ranging from the poetry of gender and race by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz to that of the fragmentary, postmodern subject of Juan Felipe Herrara. How the text of Spanish and Indian miscegenation and the story of Aztlan propagate identity is demonstrated in texts from Bernal Diaz del Castillo to Gloria Anzaldua. The international space and the interlingual language of the borderlands are read as factors of nationalism and postcoloniality in discussion ranging from cowboy lingo to the essential Mexicanism of Octavio Paz. Heterotextuality is the medium in which xicanismo is articulated and comes to be a hybrid subject of textual difference.