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Threshold Time: Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature - Couverture souple

Johannessen, Lene M.

 
9789042023321: Threshold Time: Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9042023325 ISBN 13 : 9789042023321
Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2008

Synopsis

Threshold Time provides an introductory survey of the cultural, social and political history of Mexican American and Chicano literature, as well as new in-depth analyses of a selection of works that between them span a hundred years of this particular branch of American literature. The book begins its explorations of the “passage of crisis” with Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don, continues with Americo Paredes’ George Washington Gómez, Tomás Rivera’s …And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory, and ends with Helena María Viramontes’ Under the Feet of Jesus and Benjamin Alire Sáenz’ Carry Me Like Water. In order to do justice to the idiosyncrasies of the individual texts and the complexities they embrace, the analyses refer to a number of other texts belonging to the tradition, and draw on a wide range of theoretical approaches. The final chapter of Threshold Time brings the various readings together in a discussion circumscribed by the negotiations of a temporality that is strongly aligned with a sense of memory peculiar to the history of the Chicano presence in the United States of America.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Threshold Time provides an introductory survey of the cultural, social and political history of Mexican American and Chicano literature, as well as new in-depth analyses of a selection of works that between them span a hundred years of this particular branch of American literature. The book begins its explorations of the passage of crisis with Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burtons The Squatter and the Don, continues with Americo Paredes George Washington Gómez, Tomás Riveras And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, Richard Rodriguezs Hunger of Memory, and ends with Helena María Viramontes Under the Feet of Jesus and Benjamin Alire Sáenz Carry Me Like Water. In order to do justice to the idiosyncrasies of the individual texts and the complexities they embrace, the analyses refer to a number of other texts belonging to the tradition, and draw on a wide range of theoretical approaches. The final chapter of Threshold Time brings the various readings together in a discussion circumscribed by the negotiations of a temporality that is strongly aligned with a sense of memory peculiar to the history of the Chicano presence in the United States of America.

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Éditeur
Editions Rodopi B.V.
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9042023325
ISBN 13 
9789042023321
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
204
Coordonnées du fabricant
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