The Mexican American Experience, a radio program produced by the Longhorn Radio Network, includes interviews, music, and informational programs related to the Mexican American community and their concerns. Program summary: Host Alejandro Saenz interviews Inez Hernandez Tovar and Gloria Anzaldua on the issues affecting Chicana writers and the themes they explore in their work. Inez Hernandez Tovar and Gloria Anzaldua discuss the political context and cultural work of Chicana writers. They explain that the Chicano movement provided some Chicano and Chicana writers the support and forums necessary to share their work. While mainstream publishing presses ignored minority voices, Chicanos and other groups were creating their own journals. These journals helped legitimate bilingualism among Chicanos as a vehicle of Chicano expression. Chicanas and Chicanos felt free to publish works written in a mixture of Spanish and English that reflected the language(s) they felt most comfortable in. They also discuss the problems of sexism and the recognition denied to Chicana writers. While the Chicano Movement and Scholarship has acknowledged few female writers, the authors discussed contemporary ways Chicanas began to assert their presence at literary festivals and through other venues and gradually receiving more recognition. They explore the thematic differences between Chicano and Chicana writing, noting that while Chicanos authors focus on the emotional journey of pre-pubescent young men, Chicana authors use poetry and prose examine the adult relationships between men and women. Gloria Anzaldua notes some key themes discussed in Chicana poetry: feelings of rage, the effects of classism and racism, the virtues of being a woman, and the concepts of hermandad and humanidad. note the political nature of Chicana writings. Keywords: 1960s, African Americans, American Studies, Angelica Martinez, Anglo, Bildungsroman, Bilingualism, Challenge of adult male-female relationships, Chicana Homosociality, Chicanas, Chicano Journals, Chicano Literature, Chicano Media, Chicano Politics, Chicano Sexism, Chicano Studies, Classism and Racism, Code-Switching, Coming of Age, Community Recognition, Community Transformation, Cultural Discrimination, Cultural Movement, Cultural Revolution, Cultural Separatism, Dissonance Between Ideal and Practice, El Paso, Emilio Zamora, English, Estela Portillo, Feminism, Formal training, Gays, Gender Parity, Gender Roles as Literary Theme, Hermandad, Hermanidad, Homosexual, Humanidad, Ines Hernandez Tovar, Invisibility, Jose Antonio Villareal, Journalism, Labor Organizer, Language Instruction, Laredo, Mainstream Publishers, Mainstream Visibility, Movimiento, Names in Chicano literature, National Chicano Literature Festival, Pocho, Pocho dialect, Poet, Political poetry, Pre-Chicano movement, Print Culture, Private writing, Public voice, Race, Rage as a theme, Re-claiming female identity, Reactive creative element, Rodolfo Anaya, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Same Sex Desire, San Antonio, TX, Sara Estela Ramirez, Sex roles, Sexism, Sisterhood, Solidarity, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, South Texas, Spanglish, Spanglish a plus, Stigma, Teacher, Tejidos, Texas, The Chicana in America, Themes in poetry, Tomas Rivera. Broadcast date: 1977-07-06.
Creator/Contributor:
Longhorn Radio Network (creator), Saenz, Alejandro (host), Anzaldúa, Gloria (interviewee), and Tovar, Inés Hernández (interviewee)
Date Created/Date Issued:
7/6/1977
Owning Repository:
Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at Austin
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Extent:
14 minutes, 54 seconds
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Language:
English
Place of Publication:
Austin (Tex.)
Topic:
American literature--Mexican American authors, Literatura estadounidense--Autores mexicanos americanos, American literature--Women authors, Mexican American women in literature, Women and literature, Mexican Americans in literature, and Literatura estadounidense--Autoras