Race Class

Reading Mexican American Literature in the Era of Neoliberalism, 1981-1984

José Antonio Arellano (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

75 Seiten

2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781009532938 (ISBN)

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Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in Mexican American literature during the 1980s. Recognitional literature seeks to express an ethnic identity via a circular narratological discourse of self-creation. This expressive view of literature fosters readerly sympathy via testimony and textual personification, the author argues, but ultimately forecloses interpretive judgement. Redistributive literature instead averts the readers' sympathy to produce the evaluative distance through which interpretative judgement and structural critique are enabled. By tracking these competing aesthetics, Race Class shows why the Chicano Movement should not be understood as a working-class enterprise, why higher education cannot be a mechanism of social justice, and why the left continues to misunderstand the nature of economic inequality today.

1. Introduction; 2. The Development of Chicano Literature and Culture; 3. The Limits of the Chicano Solution; 4. A Critique of Chicano Activism and Literature: Richard Rodriguez Hunger of Memory (1982); 5. Recognitional Witnessing versus Redistributive Representation: I, Rigoberta Menchú (1984); 6. Identifying the Enemy: Daniel James Famous All Over Town (1983); 7. Recognitional Novels: Arturo Islas The Rain God (1984); 8. The Culture of Poverty and the Program Era: Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street (1984); 9. Against Literature? The Redistributive within The House on Mango Street; 10. Conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.2026
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Race in American Literature and Culture
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9781009532938 / 9781009532938
Zustand	Neuware