La Pinta : : Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics / / B. V. Olguín.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Olguín, B. V.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

In this groundbreaking study based on archival research about Chicana and Chicano prisoners—known as Pintas and Pintos—as well as fresh interpretations of works by renowned Pinta and Pinto authors and activists, B. V. Olguín provides crucial insights into the central roles that incarceration and the incarcerated have played in the evolution of Chicana/o history, cultural paradigms, and oppositional political praxis. This is the first text on prisoners in general, and Chicana/o and Latina/o prisoners in particular, that provides a range of case studies from the nineteenth century to the present. Olguín places multiple approaches in dialogue through the pairing of representational figures in the history of Chicana/o incarceration with specific themes and topics. Case studies on the first nineteenth-century Chicana prisoner in San Quentin State Prison, Modesta Avila; renowned late-twentieth-century Chicano poets Raúl Salinas, Ricardo Sánchez, and Jimmy Santiago Baca; lesser-known Chicana pinta and author Judy Lucero; and infamous Chicano drug baron and social bandit Fred Gómez Carrasco are aligned with themes from popular culture such as prisoner tattoo art and handkerchief art, Hollywood Chicana/o gangxploitation and the prisoner film American Me, and prisoner education projects. Olguín provides a refreshing critical interrogation of Chicana/o subaltern agency, which too often is celebrated as unambiguously resistant and oppositional. As such, this study challenges long-held presumptions about Chicana/o cultures of resistance and proposes important explorations of the complex and contradictory relationship between Chicana/o agency and ideology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. La Pinta -- PART ONE: LAND AND LIBERTY -- CHAPTER 1. Toward a Materialist History of Chicana/o Criminality -- CHAPTER 2. Chicana/o Archetypes -- PART TWO: EMBODIED DISCOURSES -- CHAPTER 3. Declamatory Pinto Poetry -- CHAPTER 4. The Pinto Political Unconscious -- PART THREE: CRIME AND COMMODIFICATION -- CHAPTER 5. Hollywood Placas -- CHAPTER 6. The Pinto as Palimpsest -- PART FOUR: STORMING THE TOWER -- CHAPTER 7. Judy Lucero’s Gynocritical Prison Poetics and Materialist Chicana Politics -- CHAPTER 8. Writing Resistance? -- CONCLUSION. Pinta/os, Human Rights Regimes, and a New Paradigm for U.S. Prisoner Rights Activism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index