Pinta Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics

Name: Pinta Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics
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ISBN: 9780292719613

ISBN-10: 0292719612

ISBN-13: 9780292719613

Edition: 2009

Authors: B. V. Olguï¿½n, B. V. Olguï¿½n

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

B. V. OLGUï¿½N is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is a poet and co-translator, with Omar Vasquez Barboza, of Cantos de Adolescencia/Songs of Youth by Amï¿½rico Paredes.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: La Pinta: History, Culture, and Ideology in Chicana/o Convict Discourse



Land and Liberty



Toward a Materialist History of Chicana/o Criminality: Modesta Avila as Paradigmatic Pinta



Chicana/o Archetypes: Jimmy Santiago Baca and the Pinto Picaresque



Embodied Discourses



Declamatory Pinto Poetry: The Masculinist Poetics and Materialist Politics of Ricardo Sï¿½nchez's




The Pinto Political Unconscious: Tattoos, Abjection, and Agency in Raï¿½l Salinas's Convict Body Altars



Crime and Commodification



Hollywood Placas: Semiotics, Spectatorship, and Ideology in American Me



The Pinto as Palimpsest: Fred Gï¿½mez Carrasco and the South Texas Culture Wars



Storming the Tower



Judy Lucero's Gynocritical Prison Poetics and Materialist Chicana Politics



Writing Resistance? Academic Institutions, Ideology, and "Prison Work"


Conclusion: Pinta/os, Human Rights Regimes, and a New Paradigm for U.S. Prisoner Rights Activism


Notes


Bibliography


Index