He then became the director of these student literaty magazines. Among the goals of the plan was the implementation of a revolutionary and popular art movement as a means of strengthening the cultural identity of the chicano. Aztlan is mentioned in several ethnohistorical sources dating from the colonial period, and each of them give different lists of the different tribal groups who participated in the migration from aztlan to central. See all 3 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Ediciones era, jan 1, 1989 foreign workers, mexican 188 pages. His papers represent this important chicano writers life and his writings. Acostas the autobiography of a brown buffalo tells the story of a young mexican american man who becomes disillusioned with american culture and returns home to.
Learn about the book and the historical context in which it was written. Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. He is a novelist and retired univerisity professor. A festschrift in his honor was published in 1995, miguel mendez in aztlan. An introduction to pilgrims in aztlan by miguel mendez. In doing so, morales effaces the realborder subject and so. Miguel mendez was teaching a course named creative literature and that was how the magazines were created. He died on may 31, 20, aged 82, in tucson, arizona. Aztecah is the nahuatl word for people from aztlan.
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