Chicana/o Subjectivity and the Politics of Identity
ISBN: 9780230370333
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan US
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Subjects: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection;

This book traces the influence of Hegel's theory of recognition on different literary representations of Chicano/a subjectivity, with the aim of demonstrating how the identity thinking characteristic of Hegel's theory is unwillingly reinforced even in subjects that are represented as rebelling against liberal-humanist ideologies.

Carlos Gallego is Associate Professor of English at St. Olaf College, USA. His work has appeared in academic journals such as Biography , Aztlán , Cultural Critique , and Western Humanities Review . He is currently finishing a book examining popular representations of psychopathology in American Culture.

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