| Titre | La poésie chicano : entre terre et poussière | |
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| Auteur | Yves-Charles Grandjeat | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 48-49, avril-juillet 1991 La terre américaine. | |
| Page | 10 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
Focussing on the works of two major Chicano poets, Alurista and Gary Soto, this paper assesses the function, in Chicano poetry, of the two key motifs of the earth and the dust. The latter are approached as metaphors through which Chicano poetry reveals a basic ambiguity in its quest for a Chicano identity. The recurrent symbol of the earth designates Chicano poetry as geared to the search for a private, self-centered and self-contained sense of belonging. The presence of dust and its drifts, in contrast, suggests that group identity is an open-ended process ruled by constant metamorphosis. This paper sees this ambivalence as a response to the ideological contradictions of the Chicano movement. Mostly, it examines how the two motifs actually interact to produce a paradoxical writing whose center is only to be found off-center, and where the One always holds room for the Other. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1991_num_48_1_1434 |
