>>Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities

ISBN: 0-521-57492-7
190 pp. | paper only | $18.00

Alfred Arteaga

As defined and appropriated by critics of Chicano literature, mestizaje denotes the sense of cultural mixture and split heritage lying at the heart of Mexican American identity. Chicano Poetics discusses this notion of hybridity and its effect on the relation between poetry and identity. Examining a range of readings, this book explores in intriguing new ways the manner in which the literary shapes the social.