Pinta : Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics
By: Olguin, B.v. (Author).
University of Texas Press. Published: 25/03/2010. Audience Guide: Professional & Vocational.
Hardback. Sourced from U.S.A.
In this groundbreaking study based on archival research about Chicana and Chicano prisoners - known as Pintas and Pintos - as well as fresh interpretations of works by renowned Pinta and Pinto authors and activists, B. V. Olguin provides crucial insights into the central roles that incarceration and the incarcerated have played in the evolution of Chicana/o history, cultural paradigms, and oppositional political praxis. This is the first text on prisoners in general, and Chicana/o and Latina/o prisoners in particular, that provides a range of case studies from the nineteenth century to the present. Olguin places multiple approaches in dialogue through the pairing of representational figures in the history of Chicana/o incarceration with specific themes and topics.
Case studies on the first nineteenth-century Chicana prisoner in San Quentin State Prison, Modesta Avila; renowned late-twentieth-century Chicano poets Raul Salinas, Ricardo Sanchez, and Jimmy Santiago Baca; lesser-known Chicana pinta and author Judy Lucero; and infamous Chicano drug baron and social bandit Fred Gomez Carrasco are aligned with themes from popular culture such as prisoner tattoo art and handkerchief art, Hollywood Chicana/o gangxploitation and the prisoner film "American Me", and prisoner education projects. Olguin provides a refreshing critical interrogation of Chicana/o subaltern agency, which too often is celebrated as unambiguously resistant and oppositional. As such, this study challenges long-held presumptions about Chicana/o cultures of resistance and proposes important explorations of the complex and contradictory relationship between Chicana/o agency and ideology. Item Details
ISBN10/13: 0292719604/9780292719606
TITLE: Pinta, La
CONTRIBUTORS: Olguin, B.v. (Author)
IMPRINT: University of Texas Press
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 25/03/2010
SUBJECT: Education / Reference, Law, Society, Interdisciplinary Studies, Other Jurisdictions, Crime & Criminology
PAGES: 332
AUDIENCE GUIDE: Professional & Vocational
ILLUSTRATIONS: 31 b&w illus.
CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments Introduction; La Pinta: History, Culture, and Ideology in Chicana/o Convict Discourse; Part One: Land and Liberty; 1. Toward a Materialist History of Chicana/o Criminality: Modesta Avila as Paradigmatic Pinta; 2. Chicana/o Archetypes: Jimmy Santiago Baca and the Pinto Picaresque; Part Two: Embodied Discourses; 3. Declamatory Pinto Poetry: The Masculinist Poetics and Materialist Politics of Ricardo Sanchez's Poesia de Chingazos; 4. The Pinto Political Unconscious: Tattoos, Abjection, and Agency in Raul Salinas's Convict Body Altars; Part Three: Crime and Commodification; 5. Hollywood Placas: Semiotics, Spectatorship, and Ideology in American Me; 6. The Pinto as Palimpsest: Fred Gomez Carrasco and the South Texas Culture Wars; Part Four: Storming the Tower; 7. Judy Lucero's Gynocritical Prison Poetics and Materialist Chicana Politics; 8. Writing Resistance? Academic Institutions, Ideology, and "Prison Work"; Conclusion: Pintos, Human Rights Regimes, and a New Paradigm for U.S. Prisoner Rights Activism Notes; Bibliography; Index
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