Geographically close to Mexico, but surrounded by Anglo-American culture in the United States, Chicanos experience many cultural tensions and contradictions. Their lifeways are no longer identical with Mexican norms, nor are they fully assimilated to Anglo-American patterns. Coping with these tensions—knowing how much to let go of, how much to keep—is a common concern of Chicano writers, who frequently use satire as a means of testing norms and deviations from acceptable community standards. In this groundbreaking study, Guillermo Hernández focuses on the uses of satire in the works of three authors—Luis Valdez, Rolando Hinojosa, and José Montoya—and on the larger context of Chicano culture in which satire operates. Hernández looks specifically at the figures of the pocho (the assimilated Chicano) and the pachuco (the zoot-suiter, or urbanized youth). He shows how changes in their literary treatment—from simple ridicule to more understanding and respect—reflect the culture's changes in attitude toward the process of assimilation. Hernández also offers many important insights into the process of cultural definition that engaged Chicano writers during the 1960s and 1970s. He shows how the writers imaginatively and syncretically formed new norms for the Chicano experience, based on elements from both Mexican and United States culture but congruent with the historical reality of Chicanos. With its emphasis on culture change and creation, Chicano Satire will be of interest across a range of human sciences.

Chicano Satire: A Study in Literary Culture (MEXICAN AMERICAN MONOGRAPHS)

Literature & Fiction

Hernández, Guillermo

Humor & Satire

University of Texas Press

Memorias de un joven que nacio en enero,son las memorias,documentos y obras de Guillermo Hernandez,muerto a la temprana edad de 28 anos,aqui se agrupan sus poemas,sus obras de teatro,su biografia,y sus memorias de su salida de cuba.por el mariel.sin duada un testimonio importante de su vida y sus ideales.con prologo de reinaldo arenas.

Memorias de un jóven que nació en enero (Serie Testimonios) (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Persona

Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is one of ten children of a country clergyman. Although a tomboy in her childhood, by the age of 17 she is "in training for a heroine" and is excessively fond of reading Gothic novels, among which Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho is a favourite.

Northanger Abbey

Austen., Jane

Dramas & Plays

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Ortografía básica

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Sgel

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