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Download or read book Chicano Poetics written by Alfred Arteaga and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the text of Spanish and Indian miscegenation and the story of Aztlan propagate identity is demonstrated in texts from Bernal Diaz del Castillo to Gloria Anzaldua. The international space and the interlingual language of the borderlands are read as factors of nationalism and postcoloniality in discussion ranging from cowboy lingo to the essential Mexicanism of Octavio Paz.