La pinta : Chicana/o prisoner literature, culture, and politics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2010
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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Table of Contents:
- La pinta : history, culture, and ideology in Chicana/o convict discourse
- Toward a materialist history of Chicana/o criminality : Modesta Avila as paradigmatic pinta
- Chicana/o archetypes : Jimmy Santiago Baca and the pinto picaresque
- Declamatory pinto poetry : the masculinist poetics and materialist politics of Ricardo Sánchez's Poesía de chingazos
- The pinto political unconscious : tattoos, abjection, and agency in Raúl Salinas's convict body altars
- Hollywood placas : semiotics, spectatorship, and ideology in American me
- The pinto as palimpsest : Fred Gómez Carrasco and the south Texas culture wars
- Judy Lucero's gynocritical prison poetics and materialist Chicana politics
- Writing resistance? : academic institutions, ideology, and 'prison work'
- Pinta/os, human rights regimes, and a new paradigm for U.S. prisoner rights activism