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Luis Rodríguez is a prominent Latinx poet, memoirist and activist renowned for his candid visceral accounts of urban working-class life that includes youth gang violence, incarceration and drug abuse, gruelling factory work and union organising activities and collective approaches to redemption and political empowerment, which have resonated across multiple communities in the United States and abroad. Accordingly, whilst Rodríguez has been the focus of some critical scholarship, huge segments of his life, work and legacy remain unexamined. This anthology has commissioned new and unique critical essays and reflections on Rodríguez's life and works, putting forward new ideas about bringing the voices of 'barrio organic intellectuals' to the fore. The anthology deliberately includes traditional academics as well as more public intellectuals and creative writers from across Europe and the Americas to reflect Rodriguez's own diverse outputs as a prisoner author and activist.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword: The Alchemy and Shape-Shifting Art of Luis J. Rodríguez
John Densmore
Preface: Mi Compa Luis: The Legacy of an East LA Literary Soldado del Movimiento and Beyond
Roberto Cintli Rodríguez
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Recovering and Assessing the Life and Work of a Barrio Organic Intellectual
Josephine Metcalf and Ben V. Olguín
Part I. Critical Analysis
Chicanx Revolutionary Literary and Testimonial Praxis
1. Poetry to Break Stone: Zones of Abandonment, Barrio Youth Struggles and Luis J. Rodriguez's Accompañamiento Poetics of Solidarity
Jonathan D. Gomez
2. (Un-)Doing Communism: The Politics of Work in Music of the Mill
Horst Tonn
3. Luis J. Rodríguez and Chicano Testimonial Discourse
Ben V. Olguín
Chicanx Revolutionary Praxis
4. Luis and I and the Emerging Revolutionaries of the 1970s: Personal Reflections
Laura Cortez Garcia
5. Personal Reflections on Intersecting Struggles with Comrade Luis J. Rodríguez: Interviews with Richard Bray, Vicki Capalbo and Carlos Rodríguez
Sheilah Garland-Olaniran and Lenny Brody
6. Moments in the Political Journey of Luis J. Rodríguez: Recollections and Reflections of a Lifelong Comrade
Anthony D. Prince
7. Soldier of Change: Barrio Intellectual, the Poetics of Nemachtilli and the 'Language of Real Life' in Luis J. Rodríguez's Life and Work
Jose Prado
Critical Gender and Sexuality Studies
8. Life with Louie: a Testimonio on Revolutionary Love
Trini Rodríguez
9. Becoming a 'New Man': Evolving Notions of Chicano Masculinity in Luis J. Rodríguez's The Republic of East LA
Amaia Ibarrarán-Bigalondo
10. Critical Masculinity is Hard Hard Hard Work: A Tale of Recovery and Friendship Tale Between a Midwestern Gay Male and Mexican American Former Gang Member
Brian Gleason
Part II. Public Intellectual
Prison and Public Intellectual Work
11. The Spirit
Joseph Bathanti
12. 'Fixing your geography': Journey's in Luis J. Rodríguez's Los Angeles
Garth Cartwright
13. 'How can you imprison a poem?': Luis J. Rodríguez and Prison Writing Workshops in the US
Josephine Metcalf
14. Scripting Latinx Values: Luis J. Rodríguez as Small Screen Consultant
Emma Horrex
New Perspectives on Luis J. Rodríguez
15. Re-Encountering Rodríguez: It Calls You Back and Draws You In - the Personal Papers of Luis J. Rodríguez
Josephine Metcalf
16. Red Road Traveller: The Xicanx Humanism of Luis 'Mixcoatl Itzlacuiloh' Rodríguez
Natalia M. Toscano and Kristian E. Vasquez
17. Towards a Xicanx Communist Synthesis of the Organic Intellectual: Luis J. Rodriguez's Revolutionary Lumpen/Proletarian Gnosis and Praxis
Ben V. Olguín
18. Luis J. Rodríguez's Always Running and the Political Economy of Gang Memoir: From Multiculturalism to Historical Materialist Mapping of Youth Gang Life
Clint Terrell
19. Blazed with Poetry: The Political Language of Luis J. Rodríguez
Rafael Pérez-Torres
Part III. Literary and Pedagogical Legacies
Pedagogical Interventions, Awards and Audiences
20. Breaking Isolation: Prizes, Community and the Work of Luis J. Rodríguez
Laura A. Wright
21. 'The poem creates the feeling to be right there': Luis J. Rodríguez, Nemachtilli and
the German High School Curriculum
Steffen Brand, Nicolas McGuinn and Amanda Naylor
22. Reading America and Reading Rodríguez: Exploring American Literature at an English Prison Book Group
Josephine Metcalf and Laura Skinner
23. Finding América: Luis J. Rodríguez, Latinx Children's Literature and the Nurturing Power of Self Recognition
Christina Gómez
Artists' Reflections
24. From East LA to Milan: Connecting Dots and Possibilities
FLYCAT
25. Counting with Stories: Luis J. Rodríguez's Always Running as Testimonio and Praxis
Leticia Hernández-Linares
26. 'My Name is not Russ Litten'
Russ Litten
27. 'A Poetic Stick Up'
Jonathan D. Gomez
Part IV. Interviews and New Works
Interviews
28. From Archives and Always Running to Prizes and Poetry: Re-Interviewing Luis J. Rodríguez
Josephine Metcalf
29. Chicago and the National Poetry Movement: The Emergence of Luis J. Rodríguez, Tía Chucha Press and the Guild Complex
Michael Warr
30. Reflections from Havana: A Dialogue with Luis J. Rodríguez on Art and Revolution
Ben V. Olguín
New Works by Luis J. Rodríguez
31. To Live and Die in Central America: My Freelance Journalism of the 1980s
32. My Development as a Revolutionary Thinker, Organiser and Creator
33. Travelling for Knowledge and Freedom
Part V. Afterword and Resources
Afterword: Testimonio es Atole es Medicina
Robert Farid Karimi
Timeline: Critical Moments in Luis J. Rodríguez's Personal, Political and Literary Life
Selected Bibliography of Luis J. Rodríguez's Literary Works
Index
