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The KUT Longhorn Radio Network Presents: Mexican American Experience Collection

Audio recordings including interviews, music, and informational programs related to the Mexican American community and their concerns in the series "The Mexican American Experience" and "A esta hora conversamos" from the Longhorn Radio Network, 1976-1982.

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Title:
Chicano Literature: Context And Controversy
Program #
1982-26
Theme:
Culture

Series:
Literature
Host:
Linda Fregoso
Guests:
Elizabeth Ordoñez, Ida Maldonado, Jose Villarreal, Juan Rodriguez, Nicolas Kannelos, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Yolanda Julia Broyles
Date:
Dec 31, 1969

Chicano Literature: Context and Controversy

Linda Fregoso analyzes current tensions in Chicano literature with Chicano authors, poets, critics and publishers. The conversation first examines the decline of the Spanish-language press and the impact of Chicano publishing houses on the publication of self-consciously political literature by Chicano authors. The program ends with a contrast between the first Chicano generation of writers and what some of their advocates call the squeegee generation.

The first half of the show compares the conditions shaping the first wave of Chicano publishing to the English-based infrastructure shaping the literary production by movement writers in the middle of the Chicano movements. Linda Fregoso discusses the impact of the quinto sol publishing house with Jose Villareal, Ricardo Hinojosa-Smith and Dr. Elizabeth Ordoñez. She and Linda Fregoso point out that Chicana writers raise different themes than Chicano authors, and that gender inequality, and the contradictions of la familia ideology appear more central in the writings of Chicanas. Juan Rodriguez focuses on the presence of the mystic strain in American culture on indigenist writers like Carlos Castañeda and Rodolfo Anaya. Jose Villareal and Hinojosa-Smith dwell on the limited presence of literary criticism made on their literary ideals. Nicolas Kannelos also discusses the economies of scale necessary to publish and distribute 50,000 books to booksellers across the country. Nicholas Kannelos and HinoJosa Smith discussed the appearance of universal themes among Chicano writers as they tried to break into a wider market. Juan Rodriguez called this situation the squeegee process, as writers cleaned themselves up to appeal to Anglo-american publishing houses. Writers discussed include Estela Portillo, Tomas Rivera, Rolando Hinojosa Smith, Rudy Anaya, Gary Soto and Miguel Mendez.

KEYWORDS

19th Century
20th Century
Academic Books
Academic life
Adelita
Ahistorical
Alberto Rios
American Poetry Award
American Studies
and the earth did not part
Anglo-American dominance
Art Books
Ascribed homogeneity
Bantam
Berkeley
Bilingual education
Book Smuggling
Buddhism
California
Capital
Carlos Castaneda
Carlos de Medina
Casa de los Americas
Cascabel,
Chicano Literature
Chicano Movement
Chicano novel
Chicano novelists
Chicano publishing houses
Chicano Studies
Colonialism
Como la adelita, siempre al lado del guerrillero
Complicity
Continuity
Corrido
Cultural Resistance
Dell
Economic collapse
el grito
Elizabeth Ordoñez
Elizabeth Ordoñez , Associate Professor, UT Arlington
Endurance
English mastery
Essentialism
Estela Portillo
Ethnic Press
Ethnic studies
Europe
Exploitation
Family demands
Female Inter-generational anger
Female survival
Feminism
freak show
Gary Soto
Gender inequality
Germany
Great Depression
Guggenheim,
Holland
House of quinto sol
Ida Maldonado
Incisive
Independent press
Indigenous harmony
International Audience
International festival
International reception
Interviewees
Jorge Ulica
Jose Monleon
Jose Villarreal
Juan Rodriguez
Klail City y sus alrededores
La causa
La familia
Latin America
Latino Studies
Legitimization
Literary criticism
Literary Origins
Middle-class
Miguel Mendez
Modern Chicano literature
Modernist experimentation
Movement Literature
My mother was beautiful
Myth
Mythical Past
national movement
Nationalism
NEA –
Nicolas Kannelos
Non-Profit
Novels
Oral tradition
Orientalism
Pain
Pathetic
Pedro Rodriguez
Pocho
Pocketbooks
Poetic 78
Poetry
Political Hack
Political prominence
Quinto sol award
Ramón Ruiz
Rebirth
Recognition
Reductive description
Renaissance
revista chicano-rriqueña
Ricardo Sanchez
Rodolfo Anaya
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
Scorn
Short stories
Silvio Rodriguez
Smuggling
Social Protest
Spanish Language
Spanish Language Publishing Houses
Spic-n-span generation
Squeegee clean
Suffering
Texas Lutheran College
The Beatles
Tomas Rivera
Tradition
Translation
Trens in reception
Universality
Walt Whitman poetry prize
White readers
Women writers
Women’s experience
World War II
Yolanda Julia Broyles
 

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