Chicago Mexican Cultural and Historical Studies
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Marc Zimmerman
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This first book to trace the emergence of Chicago Mexican and Chicano literature from its clouded beginnings to and beyond Chicago’s post-1968 Latino cultural explosion explores how talented Mexican writers spread out from their initial ports of entry to more diverse and cosmopolitan locales, forging an urban ethnic literature related to broader cultural and political trends. The rich tapestry set forth here shows how these writers portrayed Mexican and Latino Chicago in ways which broadened and deepened the overall Chicano, Latino, minority, and U.S. literary fields.
Part One applies theoretical and historical perspectives to early Chicago Mexican writing. Part Two studies stories portraying Mexican Chicago’s steel mill world. Part Three examines the movement north by Mexican poets identifying as Chicana/o in the 1970s and 80s. Parts Four and Five center on Chicago’s most famous Chicana writers, Ana Castillo and Sandra Cisneros, who take off toward the wider world. An epilogue surveys the many other writers emerging during and after the Latino explosion and the vital contribution of Chicago Mexicans to Latino and U.S. literature.
