Tolerating Ambiguity : Ethnicity and Community in Chicano/A Writing
Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780820430942
- ISBN-10: 0820430943
- Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
- Publish Date: August 1998
- Page Count: 305
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