{"id":588,"date":"2016-10-06T13:32:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T19:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=588"},"modified":"2016-10-06T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T21:36:10","slug":"aleman-commemorates-anniversary-of-chicano-narrative-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2016\/10\/06\/aleman-commemorates-anniversary-of-chicano-narrative-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Alem\u00e1n Commemorates Anniversary of Chicano Narrative Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Literary Studies faculty member, Dr. Jesse Alem\u00e1n, has published &#8220;The Diachronics of Difference: Chicano Narrative Then, Now, and before Chicanidad&#8221; as the lead chapter in <em>Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First Century Chicana\/o Literary Criticism<\/em> (Eds. Orchard and Padilla, U of Pittsburg Press, 2016). <em>Bridges, Borders, and Breaks<\/em>\u00a0is a\u00a0volume that assesses\u00a0the field of Chicana\/o literary studies in light of the rise of Latina\/o studies, the recovery of a large body of early literature by Mexican Americans, and the transnational turn in American studies. Using Ram\u00f3n Sald\u00edvar&#8217;s landmark work <em>Chicano Narrative<\/em>: <em>The Dialectics of Difference<\/em> as their starting point, the chapters reveal how the term &#8220;Chicano&#8221;\u00a0defines a literary critical sensibility as well as a political one, and show how this view can yield new insights about the status of Mexican Americans, the legacies of colonialism, and the ongoing prospects for social justice. In these essays, Chicano\/a literary representations emerge as significant examples of the local that interrogate globalization&#8217;s attempts to erase difference. They also highlight how Chicano\/a literary studies interests in racial justice and the minority experience have produced important intersections with new disciplines such as Latino Studies and Critical Ethnic Studies, while also retaining a distinctive character. The re-calibration of Chicano\/a literary studies in light of these shifts raises important methodological and disciplinary questions, which these essays address as they outline the new tools required for the study of Chicano\/a literature at this critical juncture. Alem\u00e1n&#8217;s\u00a0article assesses the ground-breaking impact Ram\u00f3n Sald\u00edvar&#8217;s book had on the field of Chicano\/a literary studies at the time of the book&#8217;s publication and in the 25 years since its release. Read\u00a0Alem\u00e1n&#8217;s leading chapter in\u00a0<em>Bridges, Borders, and Breaks\u00a0<\/em>when you get the book\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hpb.com\/products\/bridges-borders-and-breaks-9780822964148\">here<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bridges-Borders-Breaks-Narrative-Twenty-First-Century\/dp\/0822964147\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1475789096&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=bridges%2C+borders%2C+and+breaks\">on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Literary Studies faculty member, Dr. Jesse Alem\u00e1n, has published &#8220;The Diachronics of Difference: Chicano Narrative Then, Now, and before Chicanidad&#8221; as the lead chapter in Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First Century Chicana\/o Literary Criticism (Eds. Orchard and Padilla, U of Pittsburg Press, 2016). Bridges, Borders, and Breaks\u00a0is a\u00a0volume that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}