Mexican ballads, Chicano poems : history and influence in Mexican-American social poetry /
Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theori...
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1992.
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| Serie: | New historicism ;
17. |
| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21264 |
Sommario:
- pt. 1. Politics, Poetics, and the Residual Precursors, 1848-1958. 1. Borders, Bullets, and Ballads: The Social Making of a Master Poem. 2. Américo Paredes, Tradition, and the First Ephebe: A Poetic Meditation on the Epic Corrido. 3. With His Pistol in His Hand: The Essay as Strong Sociological Poem
- pt. 2. Social Conflict, Emergent Poetry, and the New Ephebes. 4. Chicano Poetry and Politics: The Later Recognition of the Precursor. 5. My Old Man's Ballad: José Montoya and the Power Beyond. 6. The Daemonizing Epic: Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales and the Poetics of Chicano Rebellion. 7. Juan Gómez-Quiñones: The Historian in the Poet and the Poetic Form of Androgyny
- App A. Harold Bloom: An Exposition and Left Critique
- App B. Juan Gomez-Quinones, "Canto al Trabajador"
- App C. Juan Gómez-Quiñones, "The Ballad of Billy Rivera.