Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia Conversations with Writers and Artists

Name: Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia Conversations with Writers and Artists
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ISBN: 9780292709676

ISBN-10: 0292709676

ISBN-13: 9780292709676

Edition: 2006

Authors: Frederick Luis Aldama

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Since the 1980s, a prolific "second wave" of Chicano/a writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicano/a literature and art. Building on the pioneering work of their predecessors, whose artistic creations were often tied to political activism and the civil rights struggle, today's Chicano/a writers and artists feel free to focus as much on the aesthetic quality of their work as on its social content. They use novels, short stories, poetry, drama, documentary films, and comic books to shape the raw materials of life into art objects that cause us to participate empathetically in an increasingly complex Chicano/a identity and experience. This…

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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 4/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introducing a Second Wave of Chicano/a Visual/Verbal Artists


Writers/Artists, Alphabetical Listing


Francisco X. Alarcon


Alfred Arteaga


Ricardo Bracho


Denise Chavez


Lucha Corpi


Dagoberto Gilb


Jaime Hernandez (of Los Bros Hernandez)


Juan Felipe Herrera


Richard Montoya (of Culture Clash)


Pat Mora


Cherrie Moraga


Alejandro Morales


Michael Nava


Daniel Olivas


Cecile Pineda


Lourdes Portillo


Luis J. Rodriguez


Benjamin Alire Saenz


Luis Alberto Urrea


Alfredo Vea Jr.


Alma Luz Villanueva


Writers/Artists



Poetry


Francisco X. Alarcon


Alfred Arteaga


Juan Felipe Herrera


Pat Mora


Benjamin Alire Saenz


Novels


Denise Chavez


Lucha Corpi


Alejandro Morales


Michael Nava


Cecile Pineda


Alfredo Vea Jr.


Alma Luz Villanueva


Short Stories


Dagoberto Gilb


Daniel Olivas


Luis J. Rodriguez


Dramatic and Performance Arts


Ricardo Bracho


Cherrie Moraga


Richard Montoya (of Culture Clash)


Other


Jaime Hernandez (of Los Bros Hernandez) (comic books)


Lourdes Portillo (documentary film)


Luis Alberto Urrea (nonfiction nature / travel writing)