ENGL 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Chicano Literature, Alurista, Chicano Movement
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For first paragraph good idea to explain how chicano"s galvanized a community. Do not need to do citation for take-home or in class essay. If using el plan espiritual best to use for alurista. Archive: example of black sailor painting. Marginalized people were never meant to be remembered: attributed to state power. Collective memory is remedying the exclusion from archives. Histories were usually established through the archives. Combining the mythical and political: example is the myth of azlan used to explain the largest wave of mexican immigrants to the us in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Chicano movement: alurista (floricanto) introduces the myth of azlan, chicano"s denied whiteness, rejected assimilation, and the separation between. Mexican americans and mexicans that affected a whole generation. Saw identification through indigenous history: had a conservative ideology of family, de-emphasizes differences in chicanos. Floricanto: alurista wanted to be a wise man of the chicano movement, 1st poem.