With a Book in Their Hands: Chicano/a Readers and Readerships across the Centuries - Softcover

Martín-Rodríguez, Manuel M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826358292 ISBN 13: 9780826358295

Verlag: University of New Mexico Press, 2017

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Reseña del editor:

First Place Winner of the 2015 International Latino Book Award for Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book Literary history is a history of reading. What happens during the act of reading is the subject of the branch of literary scholarship known as reader-response theory. Does the text guide the reader? Does the reader operate independently of the text? Questions like these shape the approach of the essays in this book, edited by a scholar known for his groundbreaking work in using reader-response theory as a window into Chicana and Chicano literature. Manuel M. Martin-Rodriguez has overseen several research projects aimed at documenting Chicana and Chicano reading practices and experiences. Here he gathers diverse and passionate accounts of reading drawn from that research. For many, books served as refuges from the sorrows of a childhood marked by violence or parental abandonment. Several of the contributors here salute the roles of teachers in introducing poetry and stories into their lives.

Biografía del autor:

Manuel M. Martin-Rodriguez is a professor of literature and a founding faculty member of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the University of California, Merced.

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• Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0826358292
• ISBN 13: 9780826358295
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290