Part 1. Aztlán as myth and historical conscience. Aztlán: myth and historic consciousness of the Chicano people / Aztlán: a homeland without boundaries / Cosme Zaragoza; translated by Francisco A. Lomeli. The archaic, historical, and mythicized dimensions of Aztlán / Michael Pina -- Spanish colonial mapmakers and the search for Aztlán, Teguayo, Copala, and the Siete Cuevas / Joseph P. Sánchez -- The Aztec palimpsest: toward a new understanding of Aztlán, cultural identity and history / Daniel Cooper Alarcón -- Aztlán: myth and historic consciousness of the Chicano people / Cosme Zaragoza; translated by Francisco A. Lomeli. Part 2. Historicizing the dialectics of Aztlán. Aztlán, Montezuma, and New Mexico: the political uses of American Indian mythology / Ramón A Gutiérrez. Myth and reality: observations on American myths and the myth of Aztlán / E.A. Mares -- The vicissitudes of Aztlán / Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe -- Aztlán, Montezuma, and New Mexico: the political uses of American Indian mythology / Ramón A Gutiérrez. Part 3. Redefining Aztlán as a ciscursive concept. Aztlán, Cibola, and frontier New Spain / John R. Chávez. The homeland, Aztlán/El otro México / Gloria Anzaldúa -- Queer Aztlán: the re-formation of Chicano tribe / Cherrie Moraga -- Return to Aztlán: the Chicano rediscovers his Indian past / Guillermo Lux and Maurilio E. Vigil -- Aztlán, Cibola, and frontier New Spain / John R. Chávez. Part 4. Comparative applications of Aztlán. ABC: Aztlán, the Borderlands, and Chicago / Sergio D. Elizondo. The nativist Aztlán: fantasies and anxieties of whiteness on the border / Lee Bebout -- Myth, identity, and struggle in three Chicano novels: Aztlán, Anaya, Méndez, and Acosta / Alurista -- ABC: Aztlán, the Borderlands, and Chicago / Sergio D. Elizondo.
Summary:
"During the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of Aztlán, homeland of the ancient Aztecs, served as a unifying force in an emerging cultural renaissance. Does the term remain useful? This expanded new edition of the classic 1989 collection of essays about Aztlán weighs its value. To encompass new developments in the discourse the editors have added six new essays."--Publisher's website.
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