Re-scripting Mexican-Americans in Chicana/o Juvenile Literature

Authors

Xóchitl Michaela Anson, Brigham Young University
Dr. Trenton Hickman, Brigham Young University

Keywords

re-scripting, Mexican-Americans, Chicana/o, juvenile literature

College

Humanities

Department

English

Abstract

Previous to this project I gathered information (photographs, newspaper articles and reviews, advertisements, and dime novels) interrogating misconceptions and stereotypes of Mexican- Americans that have dominated the American literary canon for at least the last two centuries. For this project I focused primarily on 20th century Chicana/o texts in two fundamental ways. Firstly, I considered particular political, social and economic events directly affecting Mexican- Americans and how much these events account for the flood of Chicana/o texts throughout the Chicano movement to the present. Secondly, by combining my first directive with my previous research, I expected to better identify the literary aesthetic and cultural space from which modern and postmodern Chicana/o authors are writing.

Recommended Citation

Anson, Xóchitl Michaela and Hickman, Dr. Trenton (2014) "Re-scripting Mexican-Americans in Chicana/o Juvenile Literature," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2014: Iss. 1, Article 623.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/623