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Chicana/o subjectivity and the politics of identity Between recognition and revolution /

This book traces the influence of Hegel's theory of recognition on different literary representations of Chicano/a subjectivity, with the aim of demonstrating how the identity thinking characteristic of Hegel's theory is unwillingly reinforced even in subjects that are represented as rebel...

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Main Authors: Gallego, Carlos.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, > 1770-1831. > Influence.
Mexican Americans > Research.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Subjectivity.
Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Literary studies: general.
Hispanic & Latino studies.
Literature.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230370333
Summary: This book traces the influence of Hegel's theory of recognition on different literary representations of Chicano/a subjectivity, with the aim of demonstrating how the identity thinking characteristic of Hegel's theory is unwillingly reinforced even in subjects that are represented as rebelling against liberal-humanist ideologies.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230111356, 2011.
Carrier Form: 260 p.
ISBN: 9780230111356
9780230370333 :
0230370330 :
CLC: K712.8
Contents: Introduction: Between Revolution and Recognition PART I: FROM EPIC NATIONALISM TO BORDERLAND IDENTITIES: DEFINING SUBJECTIVITY IN CHICANO/A POETICS Epic Aspirations: I Am Joaquin and the Creation of Chicano Subjectivity The Multicultural Turn: New Mestiza Subjectivity in Late Capitalist Society PART II: RE-COGNIZING REVOLUTIONARY SUBJECTIVITY: THE STRUCTURALIST TURN IN CHICANO/A LITERATURE The Structuralist (Re)Turn: Embodied Agency in Chicano/a Poetics Topographies of Resistance: Cognitive Mapping and Revolutionary Action in Rivera and Viramontes PART III: NON-IDENTITY AND THE TRUTH OF THE REAL: NARRATIVES OF LIFE EXPERIENCE IN ACOSTA AND PINEDA Universalism and the Identity Politics of American Democracy: Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta and the Dialectics of (Mis)Recognition Universality at the Margins: Cecile Pineda's Face and the Horrific Truth of Non-Identity Conclusion-'Beckett is a Chicano!': Antihumanist Universality in Chicano/a Literary Studies.

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