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

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...

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