Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-189) and index.
Contents
Introduction: ambivalence and contingency in the representation of Mexican identity -- The greaser in Stephen Crane's Mexican stories and D.W. Griffith's early Westerns -- Greasers, bandits, and revolutionaries: the conflation of Mexican identity representation, 1910-1920 -- The Western's ambivalence and the Mexican Badman -- Stereotype, idealism, and contingency in the revolutionary's depiction -- Gregorio Cortez in the Chicano/a imaginary and American popular culture -- Reformulating hybrid identities and re-inscribing history in contemporary Chicano/a literature and film -- Epilogue: the return of the stereotypical repressed: why stereotypes still.