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Author:   B. V. Olguín
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.652kg
ISBN:  

9780292719606

ISBN 10:   0292719604
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By:   9780292719613
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

* Preface * Acknowledgments * Introduction. La Pinta: History, Culture, and Ideology in Chicana/o Convict Discourse * Part One: Land and Liberty * Chapter 1. Toward a Materialist History of Chicana/o Criminality: Modesta Avila as Paradigmatic Pinta * Chapter 2. Chicana/o Archetypes: Jimmy Santiago Baca and the Pinto Picaresque * Part Two: Embodied Discourses * Chapter 3. Declamatory Pinto Poetry: The Masculinist Poetics and Materialist Politics of Ricardo Sanchez's Poesia de Chingazos * Chapter 4. The Pinto Political Unconscious: Tattoos, Abjection, and Agency in Raul Salinas's Convict Body Altars * Part Three: Crime and Commodification * Chapter 5. Hollywood Placas: Semiotics, Spectatorship, and Ideology in American Me * Chapter 6. The Pinto as Palimpsest: Fred Gomez Carrasco and the South Texas Culture Wars * Part Four: Storming the Tower * Chapter 7. Judy Lucero's Gynocritical Prison Poetics and Materialist Chicana Politics * Chapter 8. Writing Resistance? Academic Institutions, Ideology, and Prison Work * Conclusion. Pintos, Human Rights Regimes, and a New Paradigm for U.S. Prisoner Rights Activism * Notes * Bibliography * Index

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B. V. Olguin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. A poet, translator, and literary critic, he is the author of La Pinta: Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics.

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