基本説明
The first scholarly investigation of the interplay between Chicana/o prisoner culture and political activism from the nineteenth century to the present.
Full Description
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. OlguÍn 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. OlguÍn 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 RaÚl Salinas, Ricardo SÁnchez, and Jimmy Santiago Baca; lesser-known Chicana pinta and author Judy Lucero; and infamous Chicano drug baron and social bandit Fred GÓmez 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.
OlguÍn 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.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. La Pinta: History, Culture, and Ideology in Chicana/o Convict Discourse
Part One: Land and Liberty
Chapter 1. Toward a Materialist History of Chicana/o Criminality: Modesta Avila as Paradigmatic Pinta
Chapter 2. Chicana/o Archetypes: Jimmy Santiago Baca and the Pinto Picaresque
Part Two: Embodied Discourses
Chapter 3. Declamatory Pinto Poetry: The Masculinist Poetics and Materialist Politics of Ricardo SÁnchez's PoesÍa de Chingazos
Chapter 4. The Pinto Political Unconscious: Tattoos, Abjection, and Agency in RaÚl Salinas's Convict Body Altars
Part Three: Crime and Commodification
Chapter 5. Hollywood Placas: Semiotics, Spectatorship, and Ideology in American Me
Chapter 6. The Pinto as Palimpsest: Fred GÓmez Carrasco and the South Texas Culture Wars
Part Four: Storming the Tower
Chapter 7. Judy Lucero's Gynocritical Prison Poetics and Materialist Chicana Politics
Chapter 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
