Research Catalog

Title

Chicano controversy : Oscar Acosta and Richard Rodriguez / Paul Guajardo.

Author

Guajardo, Paul, 1961-

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, [2002], ©2002.

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Description

133 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Chicano Controversy takes a unique approach to two colorful and controversial Chicano writers: Oscar Acosta and Richard Rodriguez. Paul Guajardo argues that Acosta's involvement with the Chicano movement of the late 1960s and 1970s was somewhat opportunistic as Acosta was always uneasy about his identity and ethnicity.
• Conversely, Guajardo argues that Richard Rodriguez - who also problematizes notions of ethnicity - requires re-evaluation and full inclusion into the broadening canon of Chicano literature."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Modern American literature, 1078-0521 ; v. 33

Uniform Title

Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 33.

Subject

• Acosta, Oscar Zeta
• Rodriguez, Richard, 1944-
• American literature > History and criticism
• Mexican Americans > History and criticism
• Autobiography
• Mexican Americans in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-133).

Contents

Introduction: The Root of the Controversy -- Ch. 1. Chicanos Are Made Not Born -- Ch. 2. The Autobiographical Impulse -- Ch. 3. Acosta's Disguises -- Ch. 4. Acosta: Still Posturing -- Ch. 5. Rodriguez As Whipping Boy -- Ch. 6. Rodriguez: Days of Controversy -- Ch. 7. Resolving Controversy.

ISBN

082045706X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001034693

OCLC

• ocm47013249
• SCSB-4321477

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries