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Autor/in | Carlston, Erin G. |
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Titel | "Making the Margins Chaos": Romantic and Antiromantic Readings of La Maravilla |
Quelle | In: Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 30 (2005) 2, S.113-135 (23 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0005-2604 |
Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; Novels; Religious Factors; Literature Appreciation; Literary Criticism; Reader Response; Reader Text Relationship; Hermeneutics; Phenomenology; Ethnology; Critical Theory; Romanticism |
Abstract | Alfredo Vea Jr.'s 1993 novel "La Maravilla" depicts a 1950s squatter community on the edge of Phoenix. The community, Buckeye Road, questions notions of U.S. American identity as middle-class, WASP, and heterosexual. Buckeye can easily be viewed as a romanticized utopia that offers an alternative to consumer capitalism, urban sprawl, the disintegration of community, and the loss of spiritual values in the second half of the twentieth century. I argue, however, that the novel consistently undercuts both its own romanticism and our romanticized readings of it. (Contains 7 notes.) (Author). |
Anmerkungen | UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. 193 Haines Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1544. Tel: 310-794-9380; Tel: 310-825-2642; Fax: 310-206-1784; e-mail: press@chicano.ucla.edu; Web site: http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/press |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2017/4/10 |