Chicana/o Subjectivity and the Politics of Identity

1. Introduction: Between Recognition and Revolution
Carlos Gallego

Part One. Epic Nationalism, Borderland Identities, and the Structuralist (Re)Turn: Defining Subjectivity in Chicano/a Poetics

2. Epic Aspirations: I Am Joaquín and the Creation of Chicano Subjectivity
Carlos Gallego

3. The Multicultural Turn: New Mestiza Subjectivity in Late Capitalist Society
Carlos Gallego

4. The Structuralist (Re)Turn: Embodied Agency in Chicano/a Poetics
Carlos Gallego

Part Two. Identity Politics and the Truth of the Real: Narratives of Life Experience in Acosta and Pineda

5. Universalism and the Identity Politics of American Democracy: Oscar “Zeta” Acosta and the Dialectics of (Mis)Recognition
Carlos Gallego

6. Universality at the Margins: Cecile Pineda’s Face and the Horrific Truth of Non-Identity
Carlos Gallego

7. Conclusion: “Beckett is a Chicano!”: Antihumanist Universality in Chicano/a Literary Studies
Carlos Gallego

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Latin American Culture, International Relations, Literature, general, Ethnicity Studies, Political Science, Anthropology