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Aztlán
Essays on the Chicano Homeland, Revised and Expanded Edition
Edited by Rudolfo Anaya, Francisco A. Lomelí and Enrique R. Lamadrid
Published by: University of New Mexico Press
During the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of Aztlán, homeland of the ancient Aztecs, served as a unifying force in an emerging cultural renaissance. Does the term remain useful? This expanded new edition of the classic 1989 collection of essays about Aztlán weighs its value. To encompass new developments in the discourse the editors have added six new essays.
Rudolfo Anaya, widely acclaimed as one of the founders of modern Chicano literature, is professor emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico. Anaya was presented with the National Medal of Arts for literature in 2001 and his novel Alburquerque (the city's original Spanish spelling) won the PEN Center West Award for Fiction. He has also received the Premio Quinto Sol, the national Chicano literary award, the American Book Award from The Before Columbus Foundation, the Mexican Medal of Friendship from the Mexican Consulate, and the Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award. He is best known for the classic Bless Me Ultima.
Francisco A. Lomelí is professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Chicana/Chicano studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was awarded the 2006 Critica Nueva Award by University of New Mexico Libraries. The award was established by Rudolfo and Patrica Anaya to recognize the foremost scholars in Chicana/Chicano literary criticism.
"After close to half a century of elaboration on the concept and cultural forces of Aztlán, with this edition we encounter new sets of thinking, radical perspectives, and most of all, perhaps, we can see ourselves in the universe as never before--turning, repivoting a new poetic mind, a fuller humanity. These authors are brilliant, daring pioneers. Bravo!"--Juan Felipe Herrera, United States Poet Laureate , 2015-2016
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Acknowledgments
Introduction. Revisiting the Vision of Aztlán: Origins, Interpretations, and Theory vis-à-vis Fact and Fiction
Francisco A. Lomelí
Part One. Aztlán as Myth and Historical Conscience
Chapter One. El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán
Chapter Two. Aztlán: A Homeland without Boundaries
Rudolfo A. Anaya
Chapter Three. The Archaic, Historical, and Mythicized Dimensions of Aztlán
Michael Pina
Chapter Four. Spanish Colonial Mapmakers and the Search for Aztlán, Teguayo, Copala, and the Siete Cuevas
Joseph P. Sánchez
Chapter Five. The Aztec Palimpsest: Toward a New Understanding of Aztlán, Cultural Identity, and History
Daniel Cooper Alarcón
Chapter Six. Aztlán: Myth and Historical Consciousness of the Chicano People
Cosme Zaragoza, Translated by Francisco A. Lomelí
Part Two. Historicizing the Dialectics of Aztlán
Chapter Seven. In Search of Aztlán
Luis Leal, Translated by Gladys Leal
Chapter Eight. Myth and Reality: Observations on American Myths and the Myth of Aztlán
E. A. Mares
Chapter Nine. The Vicissitudes of Aztlán
Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe
Chapter Ten. Aztlán, Montezuma, and New Mexico: The Political Uses of American Indian Mythology
Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Part Three. Redefining Aztlán as a Discursive Concept
Chapter Eleven. Refiguring Aztlán
Rafael Pérez-Torres
Chapter Twelve. The Homeland, Aztlán/El otro México
Gloria Anzaldúa
Chapter Thirteen. Queer Aztlán: The Re-Formation of Chicano Tribe
Cherríe Moraga
Chapter Fourteen. Return to Aztlán: The Chicano Rediscovers His Indian Past
Guillermo Lux and Maurilio E. Vigil
Chapter Fifteen. Aztlán, Cíbola, and Frontier New Spain
John R. Chávez
Part Four. Comparative Applications Of Aztlán
Chapter Sixteen. Myth and Comparative Cultural Nationalism: The Ideological Uses of Aztlán
Genaro M. Padilla
Chapter Seventeen. Aztlán, Borinquen, and Hispanic Nationalism in the United States
J. Jorge Klor de Alva
Chapter Eighteen. The Nativist Aztlán: Fantasies and Anxieties of Whiteness on the Border
Lee Bebout
Chapter Nineteen. Myth, Identity, and Struggle in Three Chicano Novels: Aztlán, Anaya, Méndez, and Acosta
Alurista
Chapter Twenty. ABC: Aztlán, the Borderlands, and Chicago
Sergio D. Elizondo
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