Alurista | Juan Bruce-Novoa (essay date 1982)
Juan Bruce-Novoa (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: “The Teachings of Alurista: A Chicano Way of Knowledge,” in Chicano Poetry: A Response to Chaos, University of Texas Press, pp. 69-93, 1982.
[In the following essay, Bruce-Novoa offers a thematic reading of the first ten poems of Floricanto en Aztlán.]
Quetzalcóatl-Nanauatzin is the sun-god of the priests [Tlamatinime], who consider voluntary self-sacrifice the highest expression of their doctrine of the world and of life.
—Jacques Soustelle, La Pensée Cosmologique des Anciens Mexicains1
Alberto Urista, known as Alurista, has published three collections of poetry, Floricanto en Aztlán (1971), Nationchild Plumaroja (1972), and Timespace Huracán (1976). They are didactic books that attempt to teach Chicanos to understand themselves and their situation, and to overcome the threats to their existence. Alurista...
[The entire page is 11538 words long]
Navigate
