Chicano/a Children’s Literature: A Transaztlantic Reader’s History

Year 2006, Issue: 23, 15 - 35, 01.04.2006

Manuel M. Martín-rodríguez

Abstract

In order to re write the history of Chicano/a literature, scholars have outlined different phases that coincide with significant political events affecting the people we identify today as Chicanos/as, and their ancestors. A pioneering effort in that regard was Luis Leal's systematic classification of 1973. Leal distinguished seven periods in Chicano/a literary history: the pre-Hispanic until 1539 , the Hispanic 1539-1820 , the Mexican 1821-1848 , a Transition period 1848-1910 , a period of Interaction 1910-1942 , an Adjustment period 1943-1964 , and the Chicano/a period 1965-to date . Each of those moments was characterized by shifts in political allegiances or systems, linguistic and cultural transformations and, in most cases, substantial demographic adjustments, as population groups crossed one border or another to relocate in new areas.

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