Movements in Chicano Poetry

Movements in Chicano Poetry
Author: Rafael Pèrez-Torres
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1995-01-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521478038

Studies the central concerns addressed by recent Chicano poetry.

Contemporary Chicana Poetry

Contemporary Chicana Poetry
Author: Marta E. Sanchez
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0520340884

In this first book-length study of the works of Chicano women writers, Marta Ester Sanchez introduces the reader to a group of Chicanas who in the 1970s began to reexamine and reevaluate their gender and cultural identity through poetic language. The term 'Chicana' refers here to women of Mexican heritage who live and write in the United States. The works of four contemporary Chicana poets---Alma Villanueva, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Lucha Corpi, and Bernice Zamora---are the focus of this volume. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986. In this first book-length study of the works of Chicano women writers, Marta Ester Sanchez introduces the reader to a group of Chicanas who in the 1970s began to reexamine and reevaluate their gender and cultural identity through poetic language. The term

Chicano Poetry

Chicano Poetry
Author: Juan Bruce-Novoa
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2014-02-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0292762364

Alurista. Gary Soto. Bernice Zamora. José Montoya. These names, luminous to some, remain unknown to those who have not yet discovered the rich variety of late twentieth century Chicano poetry. With the flowering of the Chicano Movement in the mid-1960s came not only increased political awareness for many Mexican Americans but also a body of fine creative writing. Now the major voices of Chicano literature have begun to reach the wider audience they deserve. Bruce-Novoa's Chicano Poetry: A Response to Chaos—the first booklength critical study of Chicano poetry—examines the most significant works of a body of literature that has grown dramatically in size and importance in less than two decades. Here are insightful new readings of the major writings of Abelardo Delgado, Sergio Elizondo, Rodolfo Gonzales, Miguel Méndez, J. L. Navarro, Raúl Salinas, Ricardo Sánchez, and Tino Villanueva, as well as Alurista, Soto, Zamora, and Montoya. Close textual analyses of such important works as I Am Joaquín, Restless Serpents, and Floricanto en Aztlán enrich and deepen our understanding of their imagery, themes, structure, and meaning. Bruce-Novoa argues that Chicano poetry responds to the threat of loss, whether of hero, barrio, family, or tradition. Thus José Montoya elegizes a dead Pachuco in "El Louie," and Raúl Salinas laments the disappearance of a barrio in "A Trip through the Mind Jail." But this elegy at the heart of Chicano poetry is both lament and celebration, for it expresses the group's continuing vitality and strength. Common to twentieth-century poetry is the preoccupation with time, death, and alienation, and the work of Chicano poets—sometimes seen as outside the traditions of world literature—shares these concerns. Bruce-Novoa brilliantly defines both the unique and the universal in Chicano poetry.

Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems

Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems
Author: José E. Limón
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 1992-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520076338

"José Limón is one of our most interesting and important commentators on Chicano culture. . . . [This book] will help strengthen an important style of historically and politically accountable cultural analysis."—Michael M. J. Fischer, co-author of Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition

Chicano Poet 1970-2010

Chicano Poet 1970-2010
Author: Reyes Cárdenas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9780984441556

This book is an anthology of 372 poems by Reyes Cárdenas, spanning from 1970 to 2010. Many poems reflect the Chicano experience and the times they were written.

The Elements of San Joaquin

The Elements of San Joaquin
Author: Gary Soto
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1452171955

A timely new edition of a pioneering work in Latino literature, National Book Award nominee Gary Soto's first collection (originally published in 1977) draws on California's fertile San Joaquin Valley, the people, the place, and the hard agricultural work done there by immigrants. In these poems, joy and anger, violence and hope are placed in both the metaphorical and very real circumstances of the Valley. Rooted in personal experiences—of the poet as a young man, his friends, family, and neighbors—the poems are spare but expansive, with Soto's voice as important as ever. This welcome new edition has been expanded with a crucial selection of complementary poems (some previously unpublished) and a new introduction by the author.

Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff

Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff
Author: Sara Borjas
Publisher: Noemi Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781934819791

Poetry. California Interest. Latinx Studies. HEART LIKE A WINDOW, MOUTH LIKE A CLIFF is a transgressive, yet surprisingly tender confrontation of what it means to want to flee the thing you need most. The speaker struggles through cultural assimilation and the pressure to "act" Mexican while dreaming of the privileges of whiteness. Borjas holds cultural traditions accountable for the gendered denial of Chicanas to individuate and love deeply without allowing one's love to consume the self. This is nothing new. This is colonization working through relationships within Chicanx families--how we learn love and perform it, how we filter it though alcohol abuse--how ultimately, we oppress the people we love most. This collection simultaneously reveres and destroys nostalgia, slips out of the story after a party where the reader can find God "drunk and dreaming." Think golden oldiez meets the punk attitude of No Doubt. Think pochas sipping gin martinis in lowriders cruising down Who Gives a Fuck Boulevard.

Chicana Falsa

Chicana Falsa
Author: Michele M. Serros
Publisher:
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2012-02-10
Genre: Mexican American women
ISBN: 9780615538471

From the white boy who transforms himself into a full-fledged Chicano, to the self-assured woman who effortlessly terrorizes her Anglo boss, to the junior-high friend who berated her "sloppy Spanish" and accused her of being a "Chicana Falsa," the people and places that Michele Serros brings to vivid life in this collection of poems and stories introduce a unique new viewpoint to the American literary landscape. Witty, tender, irreverent, and emotionally honest, her words speak to the painful and hilarious identity crises particular to the coming of age of an adolescent caught between two cultures.

Three Times a Woman

Three Times a Woman
Author: Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Publisher: Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1989
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

This volume presents full-length collections of poetry by three outstanding Chicana poets. Alicia Gaspar de Alba cultivates a poetry of paradox that explores the borders between politics and the sexes. Maria Herrera-Sobek's collection is suffused with memories that keep alive the dead, and that, with the help of ars poetica, reorder lives and events that have been blown away. Demetria Martinez has written a sensitive, caring and morally and politically committed work.

Mexican Jazz

Mexican Jazz
Author: Israel F. Haros Lopez
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2016-04-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781533261953

A Non-linear Graphic Novel . Poetry and Illustrations about women and children in detention centers and the current dangers of migrating to the united states.