Movements in Chicano Poetry

Studies the central concerns addressed by recent Chicano poetry.

1. Introduction: movements in a 'minority' literature; Part I: The Postcolonial: 2. Four or five worlds - Chicano: a literary criticism as postcolonial discourse; 3. From the homeland to the borderlands, the reformation of 'Aztlán'; 4. Locality, locotes and the politics of displacement; Part II. The Postmodern: 5. Migratory readings: Chicana/o literary criticism and the postmodern; 6. Mythic 'memory' and cultural construction; 7. Mouthing off - polyglossia and radical mestizaje; Part III. Confluences: 8. Between worlds.