Chicano Identity in Literature (Identities and Issues in Literature)
History
When historians and other scholars began to assess the impact of the Chicano Renaissance of the 1960’s and early 1970’s, they soon realized that the social and political upheaval of the time also produced an explosion of artistic creation which needed to be understood. Literary works in particular became the subject of intense scrutiny because for many, they held the secret to understanding the Chicano experience in that age of growing awareness. The process of discovering Chicano literature, to a large extent, also became a process of defining Chicano...
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