Raúl Homero Villa

Barrio-Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

STRUGGLES OVER SPACE AND RESISTANCE TO GEOGRAPHIC DISPLACEMENT gave rise to much of Chicano history and culture. In this pathfinding book, Raul Villa explores how California Chicano/a writers, journalists, artists, activists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying forces of urban renewal programs and massive freeway development and to create and defend a sense of Chicano place-identity. Villa opens with a historical overview that shows how Chicano communities and culture have developed in response to conflicts over space ever since the United States' annexation of Mexican territory in the 1840s. Then, turning to the work of contemporary members of the Chicano intelligentsia such as poet Lorna Dee Cervantes, novelist Ron Arias, and the art collective RCAF (Rebel Chicano Art Front), Villa demonstrates how their expressive practices re-imagine and re-create the dominant urban space as a community enabling place. In doing so, he illuminates the endless interplay in which cultural texts and practices are shaped by and act upon their social and political contexts.

Produktdetails

• Cmas History, Culture, and Soc
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780292787421
• ISBN-10: 0292787421
• Artikelnr.: 21878974

Autorenporträt

By Raúl Homero Villa

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction. Spatial Practice and Place-Consciousness in Chicano
Urban Culture
* One. Creative Destruction: Founding Anglo Los Angeles on the Ruins of
El Pueblo
* Two. From Military-Industrial Complex to Urban-Industrial Complex:
Promoting and Protesting the Supercity
* Three. "Phantoms in Urban Exile": Critical Soundings from Los
Angeles' Expressway Generation
* Four. Art against Social Death: Symbolic and Material Spaces of
Chicano Cultural Re-creation
* Five. Between Nationalism and Women's Standpoint: Lorna Dee
Cervantes' Freeway Poems
* Epilogue. Return to the Source
* Notes
* Works Cited
* Permissions
* Acknowledgments
* Index