El idioma y sus avatares en Rubén Darío. Anglicismos y panlenguaje // The language and its vicissitudes in Rubén Darío: Anglicisms and panlenguaje by María del Rocío Oviedo Pérez de Tudela

“…Moreover, he anticipates what will later happen in the case of Spanglish and Chicano languages, on the level of interchange and miscegenation of languages in contact.…”
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Beyond “fixed” and “mixed” racial paradigms: Beyond “fixed” and “mixed” racial paradigms: by Laura Lomas

“…Este artigo justapõe a proliferação do discurso sobre hispânicos no período que segue o pós-censo 2000 dos EUA com as representações performáticas
 de identidade cultural americana realizadas pelo mexicano-chicano Guillermos Gómez-Peña e pela indígena-Canadense Monique Mojíca. …”
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Whole issue by Language Value

“…The use and abuse of language by a Chicano from Aztlán (both words unknown). Nephtalí de León Book and Multimedia Reviews  Koritha Mitchell. …”
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The Loss of a Language and Untranslatability in Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory by An Van Hecke

“…Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory (1982) is often seen as a story of professional success and assimilation into American life, but the author was criticized for opposing so-called “affirmative action” and bilingual education, highly controversial issues defended by Chicano activists in the eighties. Conversely, 21st-century readers began to read this work in a more nuanced way. …”
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Crítica poscolonial desde las prácticas políticas del feminismo antirracista by Ochy Curiel

“…Trazando un recorrido que va desde los movimientos feministas negros en los Estados Unidos, pasando por el feminismo chicano, el feminismo afrolatino y el feminismo indígena, la autora muestra que la teoría poscolonial se beneficiaría mucho de los grandes aportes que estos movimientos políticos han hecho al pensamiento sobre la dominación colonial.…”
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The role of suppressive language policies in language shift and language loss by Eduardo Hernández Chávez

“…The Skutnabb-Kangas and Phillipson analysis of linguistic human rights is used as a basis for understanding language replacement phenomena in the United States. Use of Spanish in Chicano communities is shifting rapidly to English despite the huge numbers of recent immigrants who are dominant in Spanish. …”
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Intercultural Communication in the Work of Leslie Marmon Silko by Irina Chirica

“… The paper discusses Leslie Marmon Silko’s contribution as a writer born and bred in the Four-Corner Area of the United States (where the states of Utah, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico come together), a contact zone characterized by the meeting of three cultures: Pueblo, Chicano and Anglo-American. A mixed-race woman, Silko was perhaps the most suitable person, because of her family heritage and her life at the limits of the Laguna Pueblo, to explore multiculturalism from both a Native and a Euro-American perspective. …”
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Crítica poscolonial desde las prácticas políticas del feminismo Antirracista by Ochy Curiel

“…Trazando un recorrido que va desde los movimientos feministas negros en los Estados Unidos, pasando por el feminismo chicano, el feminismo afrolatino y el feminismo indígena, la autora muestra que la teoría poscolonial se beneficiaría mucho de los grandes aportes que estos movimientos políticos han hecho al pensamiento sobre la dominación colonial.…”
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On Identity, Place, Dignity, and Honor: The Madonnas of Echo Park (2010) by Brando Skyhorse by Ibarrarán-Bigalondo, Amaya

“…For this purpose, we will employ Alfredo Mirandé’s conceptualization of Chicano masculinity, characterized by a strong sense of honor, dignity and pride, among other things. …”
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Cisneros’ Code-Mixed Narrative and its Implications for Translation by María José García Vizcaíno

“…The pragmatic consequences of code-switching in the field of literary translation, especially in the case of Chicano novels that are written in English but code-switches to Spanish for pragmatic, narrative and stylistic purposes have barely been studied so far. …”
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Lesbianismo y literatura chicana: la construcción de una identidad by María Ángeles Toda Iglesia

“…Dichos recursos incluyen el cuestionamiento de las políticas lesbófobas y antifeministas del movimiento chicano, el análisis de las relaciones familiares y la reescritura de mitos patriarcales mexicanos.…”
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Intercultural Communication in the Work of Leslie Marmon Silko by Irina Chirica

“… The paper discusses Leslie Marmon Silko’s contribution as a writer born and bred in the Four-Corner Area of the United States (where the states of Utah, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico come together), a contact zone characterized by the meeting of three cultures: Pueblo, Chicano and Anglo-American. A mixed-race woman, Silko was perhaps the most suitable person, because of her family heritage and her life at the limits of the Laguna Pueblo, to explore multiculturalism from both a Native and a Euro-American perspective. …”
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So Close and Yet so Foreign: Trans-Border relations in Paul S. Flores’ Along the Border Lies (2001) by Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger

“…Flores’ Along the Border Lies looks at the northern and southern sides of the San Diego-Tijuana border region from a Chicano, postcolonial, postmodern perspective that considers class, status, and national origin as factors determining the way one relates to this place, the extent to which the border can be crossed in one direction or another, and the chances one has on the U.S and Mexican sides respectively. …”
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Oscar Zeta Acosta and Nepantla: The Conceptual In-between by Eric Bergman

“…Nearly every character in the novel is described in terms of his or her ethnicity, often derogatorily, including the narrator, which, understood as satire, goes beyond the nationalism prevalent in the Chicano Movement. Understood as a religious pilgrimage, the narration develops from a Mexican American Catholic upbringing, to Baptist Anglo Protestantism and ultimately into a form of Aztec religious coding that is in-between inherited and constructed identity categories and framed as a creative nepantlera space and as a choice.…”
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Latino Autobiography, the Aesthetic, and Political Criticism: The Case of <em>Hunger of Memory</em> by Isabel Durán

“…In a fierce defense of the aesthetic properties of the ethnic autobiography, Isabel Durán, “as an outsider” to the politics of “Chicano” critics working in the US (“I am Spanish, and live in Spain”), argues that certain politicized critical approaches to ethnic autobiography inside the US have insisted on an identity politics that reads ethnic or minority writing as “good” if and only if it is “obedient” to the critic’s political ideology, regardless of its aesthetic value as art. …”
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Traducir textos híbridos: apuntes sobre la traducción al castellano de Johnny Tenorio de Carlos Morton by Elena Errico

“…En este trabajo analizo la traducción al español de una obra del dramaturgo chicano Carlos Morton, Johnny Tenorio (Morton 1988), llevada a cabo por Eduardo Rodríguez Solís (Morton 1999). …”
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Transnacionalismo y frontera cultural en el surgimiento del hip hop: el caso de la ciudad de Monterrey, México by José Juan Olvera Gudiño

“…Monterrey presenta especificidades relativas a su posición geográfica, al papel de las familias transnacionales, a su carácter de "frontera cultural" y al papel étnico y lingüístico del rap chicano. Palabras clave: Hip hop; transnacionalismo; Monterrey.…”
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FEMINISMOS PERIFÉRICOS, FEMINISMOS-OTROS: UNA GENEALOGÍA FEMINISTA DECOLONIAL POR REIVINDICAR by Rocío Medina Martín

“…De este modo, se considera que tanto el feminismo lesbiano, como el feminismo negro, el feminismo de color o el feminismo chicano, entre otras muchas propuestas, han llevado a cabo inequívocamente análisis feministas con objetivos decoloniales y que, por tanto, sería interesante para este último paradigma reconocer y nutrirse de estas andaduras feministas. …”
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The Hispamérica poets have turned 45 by Leonel Alvarado

“…This study focuses on how the journal traces a Latin American poetic geography that accommodates a diversity of voices, from older poets to the youngest, from neo-baroque to Chicano, from revolutionaries to indigenous poets, from political exiles to Judeo-Latin American poets. …”
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Do Multi-Party Municipal Councils Improve Local Governance? Municipal Councillors’ Opinions in El Salvador by Abby Córdova, Annabella España-Nájera

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