LEADER 04503nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910820364703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-79678-1 024 7 $a10.7560/706965 035 $a(CKB)1000000000457706 035 $a(OCoLC)609305646 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245692 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000115295 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11131305 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000115295 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10007079 035 $a(PQKB)11769137 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443221 035 $a(OCoLC)62763300 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2252 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443221 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245692 035 $a(DE-B1597)587390 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292796782 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000457706 100 $a20050518d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBrown gumshoes $edetective fiction and the search for Chicana/o identity /$fby Ralph E. Rodriguez 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (202 p.) 225 1 $aHistory, culture, and society series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-70696-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [161]-173) and index. 327 $aRolando Hinojosa's KCDT series : instrumental rationality and the advance of late capitalism in Belken County -- Michael Nava's Henry Rios series : you can't step in the same ro twice -- Lucha Corpi's Gloria Damasco series : detecting cultural memory and Chicanidad -- Manuel Ramos's Luis Montez series : aquian soy yo? crises of identity and culture -- Rudolfo Anaya's Sonny Baca series : governing the self in a sea of change. 330 $aPopular fiction, with its capacity for diversion, can mask important cultural observations within a framework that is often overlooked in the academic world. Works thought to be merely "escapist" can often be more seriously mined for revelations regarding the worlds they portray, especially those of the disenfranchised. As detective fiction has slowly earned critical respect, more authors from minority groups have chosen it as their medium. Chicana/o authors, previously reluctant to write in an underestimated genre that might further marginalize them, have only entered the world of detective fiction in the past two decades. In this book, the first comprehensive study of Chicano/a detective fiction, Ralph E. Rodriguez examines the recent contributions to the genre by writers such as Rudolfo Anaya, Lucha Corpi, Rolando Hinojosa, Michael Nava, and Manuel Ramos. Their works reveal the struggles of Chicanas/os with feminism, homosexuality, familia, masculinity, mysticism, the nationalist subject, and U.S.-Mexico border relations. He maintains that their novels register crucial new discourses of identity, politics, and cultural citizenship that cannot be understood apart from the historical instability following the demise of the nationalist politics of the Chicana/o movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In contrast to that time, when Chicanas/os sought a unified Chicano identity in order to effect social change, the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s have seen a disengagement from these nationalist politics and a new trend toward a heterogeneous sense of self. The detective novel and its traditional focus on questions of knowledge and identity turned out to be the perfect medium in which to examine this new self. 410 0$aHistory, culture, and society series. 606 $aDetective and mystery stories, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xMexican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMexican Americans$xIntellectual life 606 $aMexican Americans in literature 606 $aGroup identity in literature 615 0$aDetective and mystery stories, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xMexican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMexican Americans$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aMexican Americans in literature. 615 0$aGroup identity in literature. 676 $a813/.08720986872 700 $aRodriguez$b Ralph E$g(Ralph Edward),$f1965-$01615509 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820364703321 996 $aBrown gumshoes$93945736 997 $aUNINA