Mythohistorical Interventions
The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies
The importance of myth, symbol, and image in the Chicano movement and beyond
296 Pages, 6 x 9 in
- Paperback
- 9780816670871
- Published: April 6, 2011
- Series: Critical American Studies
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Mythohistorical Interventions
The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies
Series: Critical American Studies
ISBN: 9780816670871
Publication date: April 6th, 2011
296 Pages
8 x 5
Examining the deployment of the Aztec eagle by the United Farm Workers union, the poem Yo Soy Joaquín, the document El Plan de Santa Barbara, and icons like La Malinche and La Virgen de Guadalupe, Bebout reveals the centrality of culture to the Chicano movement. For Bebout, the active implementation of cultural narrative was strategically significant in several ways. First, it allowed disparate movement participants to imagine themselves as part of a national, and nationalist, community of resistance. Second, Chicano use of these narratives contested the images that fostered Anglo-American hegemony.
Bringing his analysis up to the present, Bebout delineates how demographic changes have, on the one hand, encouraged the possibility of a panethnic Latino community, while, on the other hand, anti-Mexican nativists attempt to resurrect Chicano myths as a foil to restrict immigration from Mexico.
1. Locating the Mythohistorical: Three Tales in the Struggle for Hegemony
2. Hero Making in El Movimiento: Reies López Tijerina and the Chicano Nationalist Imaginary
3. Of Mothers and Revolucionarias: Movement Chicanas Fashioning a Feminism of Their Own
4. Queer Genealogies: Chicana Lesbian Feminism & the Post-Movement Era
Conclusion: Echoes of El Movimiento and Other Mythohistorical Interventions
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index