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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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PROGRAM INFO

Title:
Chicanas And Literature
Program #
1977-31
Themes:
Culture, Politics

Series:
Literature, Women's Issues
Host:
Alejandro Saenz
Guests:
Gloria Anzaldua, Inez Hernandez Tovar
Date:
Jul 6, 1977

Chicanas and Literature

Inez Hernandez Tovar and Gloria Anzaldua discuss the political context and cultural work of Chicana writers. . They explain that the Chicano movement provided some Chicano and Chicana writers the support and forums necessary to share their work. While mainstream publishing presses ignored minority voices, Chicanos and other groups were creating their own journals. These journals helped legitimate bilingualism among Chicanos as a vehicle of Chicano expression. Chicanas and Chicanos felt free to publish works written in a mixture of Spanish and English that reflected the language(s) they felt most comfortable in.

They also discuss the problems of sexism and the recognition denied to Chicana writers. While the Chicano Movement and Scholarship has acknowledge few female writers, the authors discussed contemporary ways Chicanas began to assert their presence at literary festivals and through other venues and gradually receiving more recognition. They explore the thematic differences between Chicano and Chicana writing, noting that while Chicanos authors focus on the emotional journey of pre-pubescent young men, Chicana authors use poetry and prose examine the adult relationships between men and women.

Gloria Anzaldua notes some key themes discussed in Chicana poetry: feelings of rage, the effects of classism and racism, the virtues of being a woman, and the concepts of hermandad and humanidad. note the political nature of Chicana writings.

KEYWORDS

1960s
African Americans
American Studies
Angelica Martinez
Anglo
Bildungsroman
Bilingualism
Challenge of adult male-female relationships
Chicana Homosociality
Chicanas
Chicano Journals
Chicano Literature
Chicano Media
Chicano Politics
Chicano Sexism
Chicano Studies
Classism and Racism
Code-Switching
Coming of Age
Community Recognition
Community Transformation
Cultural Discrimination
Cultural Movement
Cultural Revolution
Cultural Separatism
Dissonance Between Ideal and Practice
El Paso
Emilio Zamora
English
Estela Portillo
Feminism
Formal training
Gays
Gender Parity
Gender Roles as Literary Theme
Hermandad
Hermanidad
Homosexual
Humanidad
Ines Hernandez Tovar
Invisibility
Jose Antonio Villareal
Journalism
Labor Organizer
Language Instruction
Laredo
Mainstream Publishers
Mainstream Visibility
Movimiento
Names in Chicano literature
National Chicano Literature Festival
Pocho
Pocho dialect
Poet
Political poetry
Pre-Chicano movement
Print Culture
Private writing
Public voice
Race
Rage as a theme
Re-claiming female identity
Reactive creative element
Rodolfo Anaya
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
Same Sex Desire
San Antonio, TX
Sara Estela Ramirez
Sex roles
Sexism
Sisterhood
Solidarity
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
South Texas
Spanglish
Spanglish a plus
Stigma
Teacher
Tejidos
Texas
The Chicana in America
Themes in poetry
Tomas Rivera
 

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