TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson Neate
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Tolerating Ambiguity
T2  - Ethnicity and Community in Chicano/a Writing
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1087389
N2  - 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.
KW  - self, hegemonic ideology, consciousness
LA  - English
ER  -