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Author:

Alonzo, Juan J. (Juan José), 1969-

Title:

Badmen, bandits, and folk heroes : the ambivalence of Mexican American identity in literature and film / Juan José Alonzo.

Publisher:

The University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

196 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mexican Americans in motion pictures.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0816528683 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780816528684 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)312729906

LCCN:

2009008729

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)