Mythohistorical interventions : the Chicano movement and its legacies /

"Mythohistorical Interventions" explores how myth and history impacted the social struggle of the Chicano movement and the postmovement years. Drawing on archival materials and political speeches as well as music and protest poetry, Lee Bebout scrutinizes the ideas that emerged from the ef...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bebout, Lee
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ©2011.
Series:Critical American studies series.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsn4k
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : mythohistorical interventions at the intersection of American studies and Chicana/o studies
  • Locating the mythohistorical : three tales in the struggle for hegemony
  • Hero making in el movimiento : Reies López Tijerina and the Chicano nationalist imaginary
  • Of mothers and revolucionarias : movement Chicanas fashioning a feminism of their own
  • Queer genealogies : Chicana lesbian feminism & the post-movement era
  • Conclusion : echoes of el movimiento and other mythohistorical interventions.