Mythohistorical Interventions

by Lee Bebout

Mythohistorical Interventions explores how myth and history impacted the social struggle of the Chicano movement and the postmovement years. Drawing on archival materials and political speeches as well as music and protest poetry, Lee Bebout scrutinizes the ideas that emerged from the effort to organize and legitimize the Chicano movement's aims. Examining the deployment of the Aztec eagle by the United Farm Workers union, the poem Yo Soy Joaquín...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816670870
• ISBN13: 9780816670871
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"