ENGL 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bogeyman, Chicano Literature, Alurista
19 Oct 2016
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Alurista becomes a wise man through the use of poetry. Poetry as teaching, and filled with knowledge. 1st poem: when will we achieve freedom, time becomes sacred, when = time chosen = self determination = freedom, when chicano"s become agent of history, they gain their freedom, god" is to become rasa . Hybridity is strength: link established between collective memory and community engagement. 3rd poem: recuperation of past begins, speaker is claiming land through ancestral lineage. Assuming role of history act of agency that delivers them from mr. Jones: reflects impact of loss of past of the white man (mr. jones) 5th poem: emphasizes recuperating power of history, freedom as a physical object. Hegemony of west is blinding: chicano"s have ability to move between past and present, freedom is assertion of love and casting of a shadow which brings the past directly into the present. Represents chicano labourer: evolution of crippled cockroach, to rasa is to realize .
