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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162724703321

Titolo

Aztlán : Essays on the Chicano Homeland. Revised and Expanded Edition. / / edited by Rudolfo Anaya, Francisco A. Lomelí and Enrique R. Lamadrid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, [2017]

©[2017]

ISBN

0-8263-5676-1

Edizione

[Revised and expanded edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Querencias series

Disciplina

305.868/72073

Soggetti

Religion

Mythologie

Literatur

Heimat

Chicanos

Aztlán

Azteken

Mexican Americans - Ethnic identity

Mexican Americans

Aztlán

Aztec mythology

Mexican Americans - History

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- 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 1: Aztlán as Myth and Historical Conscience -- 1: El plan espiritual de Aztlán -- 2: Aztlán: A Homeland without Boundaries / Rudolfo Anaya -- 3: The Archaic, Historical, and Mythicized Dimensions of Aztlán / Michael Pina -- 4: Spanish Colonial Mapmakers and the Search for Aztlán, Teguayo, Copala, and the Siete



Cuevas / Joseph P. Sánchez -- 5: The Aztec Palimpsest: Toward a New Understanding of Aztlán, Cultural Identity, and History / Daniel Cooper Alarcón -- 6: Aztlán: Myth and Historical Consciousness of the Chicano People / Cosme Zaragoza -- Translated by Francisco A. Lomelí -- Part 2: Historicizing the Dialectics of Aztlán -- 7: In Search of Aztlán / Luis Leal -- Translated by Gladys Leal -- 8: Myth and Reality: Observations on American Myths and the Myth of Aztlán / E. A. Mares -- 9: The Vicissitudes Of Aztlán / Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe -- 10: Aztlán, Montezuma, and New Mexico: The Political Uses of American Indian Mythology / Ramón A. Gutiérrez -- Part 3: Redefining Aztlán as a Discursive Concept -- 11: Refiguring Aztlán / Rafael Pérez-Torres -- 12: The Homeland, Aztlán/El otro México / Gloria Anzaldúa -- 13: Queer Aztlán: The Re-Formation of Chicano Tribe / Cherríe Moraga -- 14: Return to Aztlán: The Chicano Rediscovers His Indian Past / Guillermo Lux and Maurilio E. Vigil -- 15: Aztlán, Cíbola, and Frontier New Spain / John R. Chávez -- Part 4: Comparative Applications of Aztlán -- 16: Myth and Comparative Cultural Nationalism: The Ideological Uses of Aztlán / Genaro M. Padilla -- 17: Aztlán, Borinquen, and Hispanic Nationalism in the United States / J. Jorge Klor de Alva.

18: The Nativist Aztlán: Fantasies and Anxieties of Whiteness on the Border / Lee Bebout -- 19: Myth, Identity, and Struggle in Three Chicano Novels: Aztlán, Anaya, Méndez, and Acosta / Alurista -- 20: ABC: Aztlán, the Borderlands, and Chicago / Sergio D. Elizondo -- Contributors -- Back Cover.

Sommario/riassunto

This expanded new edition of the classic 1989 collection of essays about Aztlán weighs its value.