RetroSpace: Collected Essays on Chicano Literature: Collected Essays on Chicano Literature, Theory, and History

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Arte Publico Press, Jan 1, 1990 - Literary Collections - 192 pages
RetroSpace is a collection of the seminal articles of the noted critic Bruce-Novoa on the history and theory of Chicano literature.
 

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Freedom of Expression and the Chicano Movement An Open Letter to Dr Philip Ortego
13
Pluralism vs Nationalism US Literature
18
Hispanic Literatures in the United States
25
A Case of Identity Whats in a Name? Chicanos and Riqueños
33
Spanishlanguage Loyalty and Literature
41
Mexico In Chicano Literature
52
Chicanos In Mexican Literature
63
Chicano Literary Production 1960 1980
75
The Space of Chicano Literature Update 1978
93
Charting the Space of Chicano Literature
114
Surviving Our Decade
125
Canonical and NonCanonical Texts
132
The Topological Space of Chicano Literature
146
Chicano Literary Space Cultural CriticismCultural Production
157
Notes
177
Works Cited
181

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Page 21 - ... history now conceived in its vastest sense of the sequence of modes of production and the succession and destiny of the various human social formations, from prehistoric life to whatever far future history has in store for us.

About the author (1990)

JUAN BRUCE-NOVOA is the award-winning author of various articles and books, including: RetroSpace: Collected Essays on Chicano Literature (Arte PÏblico Press, 1990), Chicano Authors: Inquiry by Interview and Chicano Poetry. Currently he is a professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California at Irvine and is working on a novel about the Berlin Wall. A native of Denver, Colorado, Bruce-Novoa has lectured on Mexican painting, Hollywood film and U.S. Colonial literature, publishing widely on a variety of subjects. He has taught at Yale, Harvard, Penn State, Trinity University, the University of California at Santa Barbara and Irvine, and Universitat Mainz and Universitat Erlangen-Nurenberg in Germany, holding positions in both Spanish and English departments.

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