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La pinta : Chicana/o prisoner literature, culture, and politics
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- Creator
- B.V. Olguín
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780292793446, 9780292719613, 0292719604, 0292793448, 9780292719606, 0292719612
- OCLC
- ocn318292707, ocn560679297
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-312) and index.
- 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