Chicano Satire: A Study in Literary Culture

Chicano Satire: A Study in Literary Culture

by Guillermo Hernandez
Chicano Satire: A Study in Literary Culture

Chicano Satire: A Study in Literary Culture

by Guillermo Hernandez

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780292746114
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 07/24/2014
Series: CMAS Mexican American Monograph , #14
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 166
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Guillermo Hernández (1940–2006) was Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • 1. Satire: An Introduction
  • 2. Luis Valdez and Actos of Teatro Campesino
  • 3. José Montoya: From the RCAF to the Trio Casindio
  • 4. Rolando Hinojosa: Klail City Death Trip Series
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Works Consulted
  • Index
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