Triangulations : narrative strategies for navigating Latino identity
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Triangulations : narrative strategies for navigating Latino identity
（Critical American studies series）
University of Minnesota Press, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-229) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Just as mariners use triangulation, mapping an imaginary triangle between two known positions and an unknown location, so, David J. Vazquez contends, Latino authors in late twentieth-century America employ the coordinates of familiar ideas of self to find their way to new, complex identities. Through this metaphor, Vazquez reveals how Latino autobiographical texts, written after the rise of cultural nationalism in the 1960s, challenge mainstream notions of individual identity and national belonging in the United States.
In a traditional autobiographical work, the protagonist frequently opts out of his or her community. In the works that Vazquez analyzes in Triangulations, protagonists instead opt in to collective groups-often for the express political purpose of redefining that collective. Reading texts by authors such as Ernesto Galarza, Jesus Colon, Piri Thomas, Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Judith Ortiz Cofer, John Rechy, Julia Alvarez, and Sandra Cisneros, Vazquez engages debates about the relationship between literature and social movements, the role of cultural nationalism in projects for social justice, the gender and sexual problematics of 1960s cultural nationalist groups, the possibilities for interethnic coalitions, and the interpretation of autobiography. In the process, Triangulations considers the potential for cultural nationalism as a productive force for aggrieved communities of color in their struggles for equality.
目次
Contents
Introduction. Notes on Triangulation: Navigating Latina/o Identity
1. Zigzagging through History: Ernesto Galarza, Jesus Colon, and the Development of Insurgent Consciousness
2. Crazy for the Nation: Piri Thomas, Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, and the Urban Outlaw
3. Remaking the Insurgent Vision: John Rechy, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and the Limits of Nationalist Morality
4. I Can't Be Me without My People: Triangulating Historical Trauma in the Work of Julia Alvarez
Conclusion. New Millennial Triangulations
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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