Although recent criticism, focused on issues of resistance and border writing, holds that Chicano/a representations of self and community unsettle and transform hegemonic ideology, it has not fully explained that deconstructive potential. Tolerating Ambiguity argues that the symbolic force of Chicano/a writing is an attribute of ethnic writing which, as a symptom or reminder of the repressed ethnicity of the national consciousness, disturbs the latter.
Drawing on different genres, this study analyzes how Chicano/a writing, symptomatic of a repressed prenational identity, resists the binary symbolic order of the national consciousness to yield representations of communities characterized by a resistance to closure and homogeneity and by an accommodation of differences.
| ISBN: | 9780820430942 |
| Publication date: | 1st August 1998 |
| Author: | Wilson Neate |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 305 pages |
| Series: | Many Voices |
| Genres: |
Biography, Literature and Literary studies Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
Although recent criticism, focused on issues of resistance and border writing, holds that Chicano/a representations of self and community unsettle and transform hegemonic ideology, it has not fully explained that deconstructive potential. Tolerating Ambiguity argues that the symbolic force of Chicano/a writing is an attribute of ethnic writing which, as a symptom or reminder of the repressed ethnicity of the national consciousness, disturbs the latter.
Tolerating Ambiguity features in the following genres: Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
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Tolerating Ambiguity was written by Wilson Neate and published by Peter Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Tolerating Ambiguity has 305 pages
Yes it is part of Many Voices series