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Author:

Cutler, John Alba, author.

Title:

Ends of assimilation : the formation of Chicano literature / John Alba Cutler.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

ix, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
American literature--Mexican American authors.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index.

Contents:

Representing race, producing culture: Chicano/a literature and the sociology of assimilation -- Becoming Mexican-American literature -- Quinto sol, Chicano/a literature, and the long march through institutions -- Cultural capital and the singularity of literature in Hunger of memory and The rain god -- Lyric subjects, cultures of poverty, and Sandra Cisneros's Wicked wicked ways -- Segmented assimilation and Jimmy Santiago Baca's prison counterpublics -- Disappeared men: Chicano/a authenticity and the American war in Viet Nam.

ISBN:

0190210125 (pbk.)
9780190210120 (pbk.)
0190210117 (cloth)
9780190210113 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)889666431

LCCN:

2014022443

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)