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Volume 113 - November 1998

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Meeting Report

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  • Ethnicity

  • Terry Goldie
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    23 October 2020, p. 450
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  • Ethnic Authenticity, Class, and Autobiography: The Case of Hunger of Memory

  • Henry Staten
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    23 October 2020, pp. 103-116

  • Richard Rodriguez's autobiographical Hunger of Memory (1982) is assigned to Chicano-Chicana literature because the book tells a story of growing up the child of Mexican immigrants, but Rodriguez rejects the term Chicano for himself and denies that it is possible or desirable for Americans of Mexican descent to retain an identification with their culture of origin. Rodriguez has been widely criticized as a sellout to white bourgeois culture, but his life narrative shows that his rejection of Chicano identity is rooted in the class-and-race ideology of his Mexican parents and thus in the contradictions of Mexican history. Chicano-Chicana nationalism assumes a simple dichotomy between the proletarian mestizo or mestiza and the bourgeois white oppressor. Rodriguez's family history, however, points toward race and class divisions within the population of Mexican descent that call into question the monolithic conceptions of Chicano-Chicana identity on the basis of which Rodriguez has been attacked.

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  • Melville and American-Renaissance Discourse

  • David Ketterer
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    23 October 2020, pp. 290-291
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  • La Malinche at the Intersection: Race and Gender in Down These Mean Streets

  • Marta E. Sánchez
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    23 October 2020, pp. 117-128

  • Piri Thomas's Down These Mean Streets (1967) challenges binary notions of whiteness and blackness by valorizing a third term—mestizaje. And yet the novel enlists dominant views of female gender and sexuality to affirm the protagonist's ethnic male identity. In my Chicana feminist reading of this Puerto Rican text, I import the reinterpreted figure La Malinche and its companion figure La Chingada—prevailing tropes in Chicano and Chicana literature and discourse of the 1960s—to illuminate the complex intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. These intersections are key to social analyses that transcend binary conceptions of race and paradigms of dominant and subaltern.

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  • An All-American Cultural Studies

  • Jacques Raphanel
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    23 October 2020, pp. 129-130
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  • Circumcision in The Merchant of Venice

  • Nona Fienberg
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    23 October 2020, p. 452
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