Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland

by Rudolfo Anaya (Editor), Francisco A. Lomelí (Editor), Lamadrid R. Enrique (Editor)

Overview

During the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of Aztlán, homeland of the ancient Aztecs, served as a unifying force in an emerging cultural renaissance. Does the term remain useful? This expanded new edition of the classic 1989 collection of essays about Aztlán weighs its value. To encompass new developments in the discourse the editors have added six new essays.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826356765
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	04/01/2017
Series:	Querencias Series
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	440
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Rudolfo Anaya is the acclaimed author of Bless Me, Ultima and many other books.

Francisco A. Lomelí is a professor emeritus of Chicana/o studies and Spanish and Portuguese at UC-Santa Barbara. He is the author, coauthor, and coeditor of forty books, including a landmark translation of Alejandro Morales' Barrio on the Edge and Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland (UNM Press).

Enrique R. Lamadrid is a distinguished professor emeritus of Spanish at the University of New Mexico. He is the editor of the Querencias Series at the University of New Mexico Press.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction. Revisiting the Vision of Aztlán: Origins, Interpretations, and Theory vis-à-vis Fact and Fiction
Francisco A. Lomelí

Part One. Aztlán as Myth and Historical Conscience
Chapter One. El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán
Chapter Two. Aztlán: A Homeland without Boundaries
Rudolfo A. Anaya
Chapter Three. The Archaic, Historical, and Mythicized Dimensions of Aztlán
Michael Pina
Chapter Four. Spanish Colonial Mapmakers and the Search for Aztlán, Teguayo, Copala, and the Siete Cuevas
Joseph P. Sánchez
Chapter Five. The Aztec Palimpsest: Toward a New Understanding of Aztlán, Cultural Identity, and History
Daniel Cooper Alarcón
Chapter Six. Aztlán: Myth and Historical Consciousness of the Chicano People
Cosme Zaragoza, Translated by Francisco A. Lomelí

Part Two. Historicizing the Dialectics of Aztlán
Chapter Seven. In Search of Aztlán
Luis Leal, Translated by Gladys Leal
Chapter Eight. Myth and Reality: Observations on American Myths and the Myth of Aztlán
E. A. Mares
Chapter Nine. The Vicissitudes of Aztlán
Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe
Chapter Ten. Aztlán, Montezuma, and New Mexico: The Political Uses of American Indian Mythology
Ramón A. Gutiérrez

Part Three. Redefining Aztlán as a Discursive Concept
Chapter Eleven. Refiguring Aztlán
Rafael Pérez-Torres
Chapter Twelve. The Homeland, Aztlán/El otro México
Gloria Anzaldúa
Chapter Thirteen. Queer Aztlán: The Re-Formation of Chicano Tribe
Cherríe Moraga
Chapter Fourteen. Return to Aztlán: The Chicano Rediscovers His Indian Past
Guillermo Lux and Maurilio E. Vigil
Chapter Fifteen. Aztlán, Cíbola, and Frontier New Spain
John R. Chávez

Part Four. Comparative Applications Of Aztlán
Chapter Sixteen. Myth and Comparative Cultural Nationalism: The Ideological Uses of Aztlán
Genaro M. Padilla
Chapter Seventeen. Aztlán, Borinquen, and Hispanic Nationalism in the United States
J. Jorge Klor de Alva
Chapter Eighteen. The Nativist Aztlán: Fantasies and Anxieties of Whiteness on the Border
Lee Bebout
Chapter Nineteen. Myth, Identity, and Struggle in Three Chicano Novels: Aztlán, Anaya, Méndez, and Acosta
Alurista
Chapter Twenty. ABC: Aztlán, the Borderlands, and Chicago
Sergio D. Elizondo

Contributors

Editorial Reviews

The political significance of this volume is greater than the reader can easily surmise. . . . Most highly recommended.

La Red

This anthology is important and useful for two reasons. For those who were involved in the Chicano movement, the essays provide an important summary of what Aztlan meant . . . For everyone else, this collection of essays is an excellent starting point for understanding the changes in the social and political life of Mexican Americans.

San Antonio Express-News

A valuable work for those interested in Chicano, ethnic and southwestern studies.

Books of the Southwest

After close to half a century of elaboration on the concept and cultural forces of Aztlán, with this edition we encounter new sets of thinking, radical perspectives, and most of all, perhaps, we can see ourselves in the universe as never before—turning, repivoting a new poetic mind, a fuller humanity. These authors are brilliant, daring pioneers. Bravo!—Juan Felipe Herrera, United States Poet Laureate , 2015-2016

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