The Rise of Mexican and Chicano Literature in Chicago

By Marc Zimmerman

Biographies & Memoirs

General Fiction

Classics

Language: English Parental Guidance (PG)

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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.

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Mixing a keen sense of history, ethnic, regional and gender differences, as well as a feel for literary intertextualities, Zimmerman’s book both deepens and extends Latino and general comparative literary studies in ways which enrich the study of a particular locale and the written works which emerge therein and points to reconfigurations and transformations in the overall field of literary and cultural production. He not only relates Chicago to Southwest Chicano writing, he also points to U.S. and worldwide connections—to Luis Valdez, Tomás Rivera, Ron Arias, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Cherrié Moraga, but also to non-Chicano U.S. writers like Nelson Algren, Sherwood Anderson, Saul Bellow, Emily Dickinson, James T. Farrell, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O’Neill, John Nichols, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Loraine Hansberry, and Langston Hughes

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