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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495886003321

Autore

Gutiérrez-Jones Carl

Titolo

Rethinking the borderlands : between Chicano culture and legal discourse / / Carl Gutiérrez-Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [1995]

©1995

ISBN

0-520-91485-6

0-585-07881-5

Edizione

[Reprint 2019]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 pages)

Collana

Latinos in American Society and Culture ; ; 4.

Disciplina

305.868/72073

Soggetti

American literature - Theory, etc - Mexican American authors - History and criticism - United States

Law and literature - Social aspects

Mexican Americans - Legal status, laws, etc

Mexican Americans - Intellectual life

Mexican Americans - Historiography

Mexican Americans in literature

Narration (Rhetoric)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Legal Rhetoric and Cultural Critique: An Institutional Context for Reading Chicano Narrative -- 2. Mission Denial: The Development of Historical Amnesia -- 3. "Rancho Mexicana, USA" under Siege -- 4. Consensual Fictions -- 5. A Social Context for Mourning and Mourning's Sublimation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectivity in the United States, Carl Gutiérrez-Jones argues that Chicano history has been consistently shaped by racially biased, combative legal interactions. Rethinking the Borderlands is an insightful and provocative exploration of the ways Chicano and Chicana artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers engage this history in order to resist the disenfranchising effects of legal institutions, including the prison and the court.    



Gutiérrez-Jones examines the process by which Chicanos have become associated with criminality in both our legal institutions and our mainstream popular culture and thereby offers a new way of understanding minority social experience. Drawing on gender studies and psychoanalysis, as well as critical legal and race studies, Gutiérrez-Jones's approach to the law and legal discourse reveals the high stakes involved when concepts of social justice are fought out in the home, in the workplace and in the streets.