Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems

  PREFACE

  INTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPART ONE  POLITICS, POETICS, AND THE RESIDUAL PRECURSORS, 1848–1958
 expand sectionI  Borders, Bullets, and Ballads:  The Social Making of a Master Poem
 expand section2  Américo Paredes, Tradition, and the First Ephebe:  A Poetic Meditation on the Epic Corrido
 expand section3  With His Pistol in His Hand:  The Essay as Strong Sociological Poem

 collapse sectionPART TWO  SOCIAL CONFLICT, EMERGENT POETRY, AND THE NEW EPHEBES
 expand section4  Chicano Poetry and Politics:  The Later Recognition of the Precursor
 expand section5  My Old Man's Ballad:  José Montoya and the Power Beyond
 expand section6  The Daemonizing Epic:  Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales and the Poetics of Chicano Rebellion
 expand section7  Juan Gómez-Quiñones  The Historian in the Poet and the Poetic Form of Androgyny
 expand sectionCONCLUSION
  EPILOGUE

 expand sectionAPPENDIX A  HAROLD BLOOM: AN EXPOSITION AND LEFT CRITIQUE
 expand sectionAPPENDIX B  JUAN GÓMEZ-QUIÑONES, "CANTO AL TRABAJADOR"
 expand sectionAPPENDIX C  JUAN GÓMEZ-QUIÑONES, "THE BALLAD OF BILLY RIVERA"
 expand sectionNotes
  REFERENCES
 expand sectionINDEX

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