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Although recent criticism, focused on issues of resistance and border writing, holds that Chicano/a representations of self and community unsettle and transform hegemonic ideology, it has not fully explained that deconstructive potential. Tolerating Ambiguity argues that the symbolic force of Chicano/a writing is an attribute of ethnic writing which, as a symptom or reminder of the repressed ethnicity of the national consciousness, disturbs the latter. Drawing on different genres, this study analyzes how Chicano/a writing, symptomatic of a repressed prenational identity, resists the binary symbolic order of the national consciousness to yield representations of communities characterized by a resistance to closure and homogeneity and by an accommodation of differences.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Tolerating Ambiguity
• Subtitle: Ethnicity and Community in Chicano/a Writing
• Author: Wilson Neate
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 305
• EAN: 9780820430942
• ISBN: 9780820430942
• ID: 10028796
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Weight: 620 g
• Dimensions: 162 × 236 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 1998

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