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: Linda Fregoso analyzes current tensions in Chicano literature with Chicano authors, poets, critics and publishers. The conversation first examines the decline of the Spanish-language press and the impact of Chicano publishing houses on the publication of self-consciously political literature by Chicano authors. The program ends with a contrast between the first Chicano generation of writers and what some of their advocates call the squeegee generation. The first half of the show compares the conditions shaping the first wave of Chicano publishing to the English-based infrastructure shaping the literary production by movement writers in the middle of the Chicano movements. Linda Fregoso discusses the impact of the quinto sol publishing house with Jose Villareal, Ricardo Hinojosa-Smith and Dr. Elizabeth Ordoñez. She and Linda Fregoso point out that Chicana writers raise different themes than Chicano authors, and that gender inequality, and the contradictions of la familia ideology appear more central in the writings of Chicanas. Juan Rodriguez focuses on the presence of the mystic strain in American culture on indigenist writers like Carlos Castañeda and Rodolfo Anaya. Jose Villareal and Hinojosa-Smith dwell on the limited presence of literary criticism made on their literary ideals. Nicolas Kannelos also discusses the economies of scale necessary to publish and distribute 50,000 books to booksellers across the country. Nicholas Kannelos and HinoJosa Smith discussed the appearance of universal themes among Chicano writers as they tried to break into a wider market. Juan Rodriguez called this situation the squeegee process, as writers cleaned themselves up to appeal to Anglo-american publishing houses. Writers discussed include Estela Portillo, Tomas Rivera, Rolando Hinojosa Smith, Rudy Anaya, Gary Soto and Miguel Mendez. Keywords: 19th Century, 20th Century, Academic Books, Academic life, Adelita, Ahistorical, Alberto Rios, American Poetry Award, American Studies, and the earth did not part, Anglo-American dominance, Art Books, Ascribed homogeneity, Bantam, Berkeley, Bilingual education, Book Smuggling, Buddhism, California, Capital, Carlos Castaneda, Carlos de Medina, Casa de los Americas, Cascabel,, Chicano Literature, Chicano Movement, Chicano novel, Chicano novelists, Chicano publishing houses, Chicano Studies, Colonialism, Como la adelita, siempre al lado del guerrillero, Complicity, Continuity, Corrido, Cultural Resistance, Dell, Economic collapse, el grito, Elizabeth Ordoñez, Elizabeth Ordoñez , Associate Professor, UT Arlington, Endurance, English mastery, Essentialism, Estela Portillo, Ethnic Press, Ethnic studies, Europe, Exploitation, Family demands, Female Inter-generational anger, Female survival, Feminism, freak show, Gary Soto, Gender inequality, Germany, Great Depression, Guggenheim,, Holland, House of quinto sol, Ida Maldonado, Incisive, Independent press, Indigenous harmony, International Audience, International festival, International reception, Interviewees, Jorge Ulica, Jose Monleon, Jose Villarreal, Juan Rodriguez, Klail City y sus alrededores, La causa, La familia, Latin America, Latino Studies, Legitimization, Literary criticism, Literary Origins, Middle-class, Miguel Mendez, Modern Chicano literature, Modernist experimentation, Movement Literature, My mother was beautiful, Myth, Mythical Past, national movement, Nationalism, NEA , Nicolas Kannelos, Non-Profit, Novels, Oral tradition, Orientalism, Pain, Pathetic, Pedro Rodriguez, Pocho, Pocketbooks, Poetic 78, Poetry, Political Hack, Political prominence, Quinto sol award, Ramón Ruiz, Rebirth, Recognition, Reductive description, Renaissance, revista chicano-rriqueña, Ricardo Sanchez, Rodolfo Anaya, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Scorn, Short stories, Silvio Rodriguez, Smuggling, Social Protest, Spanish Language, Spanish Language Publishing Houses, Spic-n-span generation, Squeegee clean, Suffering, Texas Lutheran College, The Beatles, Tomas Rivera, Tradition, Translation, Trens in reception, Universality, Walt Whitman poetry prize, White readers, Women writers, Women's experience, World War II, Yolanda Julia Broyles. Broadcast date: 1982-05-28.
Creator/Contributor:
Longhorn Radio Network (creator), Fregoso, Rosa Linda. (host), Ordóñez, Elizabeth Jane, 1945- (interviewee), Maldonado, Ida (interviewee), Villarreal, José Antonio (interviewee), Rodríguez, Juan (interviewee), Kannelos, Nicolas (interviewee), Hinojosa, Rolando (interviewee), and Broyles-González, Yolanda (1949- ). (interviewee)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1981
Owning Repository:
Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at Austin
sound recordings, grabaciones sonoras, radio programs, programas de radio, and Audio
Extent:
25 minutes, 5 seconds
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Language:
English
Place of Publication:
Austin (Tex.)
Topic:
Movimiento chicano, Chicano Movement, American literature--Mexican American authors, Literatura estadounidense--Autores mexicanos americanos, Mexican American women authors, Social movements in literature, and Publishers and publishing