Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 15:50:43 -0500 (CDT)
From: Quetzil Castaneda <Quetzil-AT-uh.edu>
Subject: Re: Chicano/Latino Narratives


At 11:42 AM 4/26/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Beatriz:
>You are surely right that this distinction should be made. I do think, however,
>(and I speak from experience) that Chicano texts are sometimes better read IN
>THE CONTEXT OF Latino culture(s) (rather than in the context of the US
>multicultural nationalist song). There is an entire range of attitudes toward
>and issues of transculturation that can be addressed in the dialogues,
>differences, and similarities among these texts (just think, for only one
>example, of Octavio Paz's portrayal of Chicano culture in "The Pachuco and
>Other Extremes")
>Ralph Bauer
>bauerral-AT-pilot.msu.edu
>American Studies
>Michigan State University
>East Lansing, MI 48824-1036


furthermore, correct me if i am wrong, the original request was for BOTH!
check the subject headings on the thread!!!  without a comparative
perspective of latino lit. what does one have?  the isolation of a minority
within a "minority" that points towards a kind of essentializing.  thus,
also if one cannot really comprehend chicano lit unless one deals with
mexico/an lit -- rather some portion of it -- and with that big borderland
that extends, well, throughout that mythical aztlan....



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