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La Pinta: Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics Book

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  • La Pinta: Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics
  • Written by author B. V. Olguín
  • Published by University of Texas Press, January 2010
  • 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 cruc
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Preface ix

Acknowledgments xii

Introduction: La Pinta: History, Culture, and Ideology in Chicana/o Convict Discourse 1

Part 1 Land and Liberty

Chapter 1 Toward a Materialist History of Chicana/o Criminality: Modesta Avila as Paradigmatic Pinta 37

Chapter 2 Chicana/o Archetypes: Jimmy Santiago Baca and the Pinto Picaresque 65

Part 2 Embodied Discourses

Chapter 3 Declamatory Pinto Poetry: The Masculinist Poetics and Materialist Politics of Ricardo Sánchez's Poesía de Chingazos 93

Chapter 4 The Pinto Political Unconscious: Tattoos, Abjection, and Agency in Raúl Salinas's Convict Body Altars 118

Part 3 Crime and Commodification

Chapter 5 Hollywood Placas: Semiotics, Spectatorship, and Ideology in American Me 151

Chapter 6 The Pinto as Palimpsest: Fred Gómez Carrasco and the South Texas Culture Wars 176

Part 4 Storming the Tower

Chapter 7 Judy Lucero's Gynocritical Prison Poetics and Materialist Chicana Politics 209

Chapter 8 Writing Resistance? Academic Institutions, Ideology, and "Prison Work" 231

Conclusion: Pinta/os, Human Rights Regimes, and a New Paradigm for U.S. Prisoner Rights Activism 261

Notes 282

Bibliography 292

Index 313


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