Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes The Ambivalence of Mexican American Identity in Literature and Film

Name: Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes The Ambivalence of Mexican American Identity in Literature and Film
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ISBN: 9780816528684

ISBN-10: 0816528683

ISBN-13: 9780816528684

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Juan J. Alonzo

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Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes is a comparative study of the literary and cinematic representation of Mexican American masculine identity from early twentieth-century adventure stories and movie Westerns through contemporary self-representations by Chicano/a writers and filmmakers. In this deeply compelling book, Juan J. Alonzo proposes a reconsideration of the early stereotypical depictions of Mexicans in fiction and film: rather than viewing stereotypes as unrelentingly negative, Alonzo presents them as part of a complex apparatus of identification and disavowal. Furthermore, Alonzo reassesses Chicano/a self-representation in literature and film, and argues that the Chicano/a expression…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 9/15/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



List of Figures


Introduction: Ambivalence and Contingency in the Representation of Mexican Identity



The Greaser in Stephen Crane's Mexican Stories and D. W. Griffith's Early Westerns



Greasers, Bandits, and Revolutionaries: The Conflation of Mexican Identity Representation, 1910-1920



The Western's Ambivalence and the Mexican Badman



Stereotype, Idealism, and Contingency in the Revolutionary's Depiction



Gregorio Cortez in the Chicano/a Imaginary and American Popular Culture



Reformulating Hybrid Identities and Re-inscribing History in Contemporary Chicano/a Literature and Film


Epilogue: The Return of the Stereotypical Repressed: Why Stereotypes Still Matter


Notes


Bibliography


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