Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins

by Rafael Pérez-Torres and Rafael Pèrez-Torres

Book Overview

Interpreting specific poems by some of the best known Chicano writers, this book studies the central aesthetic and thematic concerns recent Chicano poetry addresses. Drawing on current theories of postmodernity and postcoloniality, it places a minority literature within the central concerns of contemporary literary and cultural studies. The book addresses the most important issues related to Chicano identity, especially focusing on the contribution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521478030
• ISBN13: 9780521478038
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"