| Tolerating Ambiguity: Ethnicity and Community in Chicano/A Writing Contributor(s): March, Kathleen N. (Editor), Neate, Wilson (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820430943 ISBN-13: 9780820430942 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $81.51 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese |
| Dewey: 810.986 |
| LCCN: 95050140 |
| Series: Many Voices, |
| Physical Information: 305 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although recent criticism, focused on issues of resistance and border writing, holds that Chicano/a representations of self and community unsettle and transform hegemonic ideology, it has not fully explained that deconstructive potential. "Tolerating Ambiguity" argues that the symbolic force of Chicano/a writing is an attribute of ethnic writing which, as a symptom or reminder of the repressed ethnicity of the national consciousness, disturbs the latter. Drawing on different genres, this study analyzes how Chicano/a writing, symptomatic of a repressed prenational identity, resists the binary symbolic order of the national consciousness to yield representations of communities characterized by a resistance to closure and homogeneity and by an accommodation of differences. |