| Description |
xviii, 313 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Chicana & Chicano visions of the Americas ; v. 7 |
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Chicana & Chicano visions of the Americas ; v. 7.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Part I. Living Chicano : I'm the king: the macho image -- Requiem for a lowrider -- On the education of Hispanic children -- Foreword to Growing up Chicano -- The journal of a Chicano in China -- Freedom to publish: unless you're a Chicano -- Letter to a Chicano youth -- Shaman of words -- Part II. Censorship : Take the tortillas out of your poetry -- The censorship of neglect -- The courage of expression -- Stand up against censorship anywhere it occurs -- Part III. The Southwest: landscape and sense of place : Mythical dimensions/political reality -- A New Mexico Christmas -- The new world man -- Bendiceme, America -- Martineztown builds a wall of memories -- Aztlan: a homeland without boundaries -- Sale of Atrisco land grant means loss of history, tradition -- The writer's sense of place -- The pueblo on the mesa revisited -- The writer's landscape: epiphany in landscape -- The spirit of the petroglyphs -- The spirit of place -- Why I love tourists: confessions of a Dhama bum -- Part IV. Culture and art of the Southwest : Tribute to Paul Taylor -- Deep roots: or, we have been here a long time -- The magic of words -- At a crossroads -- La Llorona, El Kookooee, and sexuality -- Luis Jimenez: view from La Frontera -- A celebration of grandfathers -- Introduction to A ceremony of brotherhood -- Cuentos de los Antepasados: spanning the generations -- Curanderas/women warriors -- Model cities/model Chicano/Norma Jean -- A second opinion -- Part V. Literature of the Southwest : The writer as inocente -- My heart, my home -- Writing Burque -- Mas Alla -- The genius of Patrociņo Barela -- The silence of the Llano: notes from the author -- Introduction to Mi abuela fumaba puros -- Introduction to Voces -- Death in the novel -- Return to the mountains -- Part V. Modern ethnic literature and culture : What good is literature in our time? -- An American Chicano in King Arthur's court -- The light-green perspective -- "Still invisible, Lord, still invisible" -- Reading, mostly novels. |
| Subject |
American essays -- 20th century.
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American literature -- Mexican American authors.
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| ISBN |
9780806140230 (alk. paper) |
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0806140232 (alk. paper) |
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