%0 Book
%A Wilson Neate
%D 2021
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T Tolerating Ambiguity
%B Ethnicity and Community in Chicano/a Writing
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1087389
%X Although recent criticism, focused on issues of resistance and border writing, holds that Chicano/a representations of self and community unsettle and transform hegemonic ideology, it has not fully explained that deconstructive potential. Tolerating Ambiguity argues that the symbolic force of Chicano/a writing is an attribute of ethnic writing which, as a symptom or reminder of the repressed ethnicity of the national consciousness, disturbs the latter. Drawing on different genres, this study analyzes how Chicano/a writing, symptomatic of a repressed prenational identity, resists the binary symbolic order of the national consciousness to yield representations of communities characterized by a resistance to closure and homogeneity and by an accommodation of differences.
%K self, hegemonic ideology, consciousness
%G English