Chicana/o subjectivity and the politics of identity: between recognition and revolution

This book traces the influence of Hegel's theory of recognition on different literary representations of Chicano/a subjectivity, with the aim of demonstrating how the identity thinking characteristic of Hegel's theory is unwillingly reinforced even in subjects that are represented as rebelling against liberal-humanist ideologies. CARLOS GALLEGO Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Arizona, USA. INDICE: Introduction: Between Revolution and Recognition - PART I: FROM EPIC NATIONALISM TO BORDERLAND IDENTITIES: DEFINING SUBJECTIVITY IN CHICANO/A POETICS - Epic Aspirations: I Am Joaquín and the Creation of Chicano Subjectivity - The Multicultural Turn: New Mestiza Subjectivity in Late Capitalist Society - PART II: RE-COGNIZING REVOLUTIONARY SUBJECTIVITY: THE STRUCTURALIST TURN IN CHICANO/A LITERATURE - The Structuralist (Re)Turn: Embodied Agency in Chicano/a Poetics - Topographies of Resistance: Cognitive Mapping and Revolutionary Action in Rivera and Viramontes - PART III: NON-IDENTITY AND THE TRUTH OF THE REAL: NARRATIVES OF LIFE EXPERIENCE IN ACOSTA AND PINEDA - Universalism and the Identity Politics of American Democracy: Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta and the Dialectics of (Mis)Recognition Universality at the Margins: Cecile Pineda's Face and the Horrific Truth of Non-Identity - Conclusion-'Beckett is a Chicano!': Antihumanist Universality in Chicano/a Literary Studies -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11135-6
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 260
• Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés