04397nam 2200697 a 450 991080976610332120200520144314.00-292-79593-910.7560/709676(CKB)1000000000461695(OCoLC)191953393(CaPaEBR)ebrary10172726(SSID)ssj0000249760(PQKBManifestationID)11923324(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000249760(PQKBWorkID)10227805(PQKB)11191203(MiAaPQ)EBC3442993(OCoLC)69199653(MdBmJHUP)muse2156(Au-PeEL)EBL3442993(CaPaEBR)ebr10172726(DE-B1597)586883(DE-B1597)9780292795938(EXLCZ)99100000000046169520051007d2006 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSpilling the beans in Chicanolandia conversations with writers and artists /Frederick Luis Aldama1st ed.Austin University of Texas Pressc20061 online resource (305 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-70967-6 Includes bibliographical references.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introducing a Second Wave of Chicano/a Visual/Verbal Artists -- Francisco X. Alarcón -- Alfred Arteaga -- Ricardo Bracho -- Denise Chávez -- Lucha Corpi -- Dagoberto Gilb -- Jaime Hernandez (of Los Bros Hernandez) -- Juan Felipe Herrera -- Richard Montoya (of Culture Clash) -- Pat Mora -- Cherríe Moraga -- Alejandro Morales -- Michael Nava -- Daniel Olivas -- Cecile Pineda -- Lourdes Portillo -- Luis J. Rodríguez -- Benjamin Alire Sáenz -- Luis Alberto Urrea -- Alfredo Véa Jr. -- Alma Luz VillanuevaSince the 1980s, a prolific "second wave" of Chicano/a writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicano/a literature and art. Building on the pioneering work of their predecessors, whose artistic creations were often tied to political activism and the civil rights struggle, today's Chicano/a writers and artists feel free to focus as much on the aesthetic quality of their work as on its social content. They use novels, short stories, poetry, drama, documentary films, and comic books to shape the raw materials of life into art objects that cause us to participate empathetically in an increasingly complex Chicano/a identity and experience. This book presents far-ranging interviews with twenty-one "second wave" Chicano/a poets, fiction writers, dramatists, documentary filmmakers, and playwrights. Some are mainstream, widely recognized creators, while others work from the margins because of their sexual orientations or their controversial positions. Frederick Luis Aldama draws out the artists and authors on both the aesthetic and the sociopolitical concerns that animate their work. Their conversations delve into such areas as how the artists' or writers' life experiences have molded their work, why they choose to work in certain genres and how they have transformed them, what it means to be Chicano/a in today's pluralistic society, and how Chicano/a identity influences and is influenced by contact with ethnic and racial identities from around the world.American literatureMexican American authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etcMexican American authorsInterviewsMexican American artistsInterviewsMexican AmericansIntellectual lifeMexican Americans in literatureMexican American artAmerican literatureMexican American authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Mexican American authorsMexican American artistsMexican AmericansIntellectual life.Mexican Americans in literature.Mexican American art.810.9/86872Aldama Frederick Luis1969-855054MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809766103321Spilling the beans in Chicanolandia3921637UNINA