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The Chicano Familia Romance Rosalinda Fregoso

The Chicano Familia Romance Rosalinda Fregoso. Central Themes (tropes). The place of indigenous music and iconography Circular migrations-old and new Mexico El Californio’s territorial claims Service workers Repatriation in the 1930s State repression-police and government

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The Chicano Familia Romance Rosalinda Fregoso

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  1. The Chicano Familia Romance Rosalinda Fregoso

  2. Central Themes (tropes) • The place of indigenous music and iconography • Circular migrations-old and new Mexico • El Californio’s territorial claims • Service workers • Repatriation in the 1930s • State repression-police and government • Political activism-through Toni • Incarceration-through Jimmy • Recorded memory, the history-through Paco

  3. Mi Familia and the “all out war over family values” • 1990s time of “moral panic” • Political agenda promoted the notion of the Republican social agenda and the strong family values perceived among Latinos. The “natural alliance”: marriage as sacred, replicated the ideal family image and gender heirarchies

  4. My Family’s representation • An idealized family: overlooks the complexity of the family arrangements • Ignores the dynamic alternatives with family and its members • Ignores the polarized family, the incest, the abuse, the rape, the spousal battery • Ignores non-traditional familes: blended families, single parenting, abandonment, lesbian and gay possibilities

  5. My Family and other themes • Masculinized hope—through males, Jose, Jimmy, Paco • Oedipal crisis: conflict between father and son (Jose and Chucho, Jimmy and Carlitos) • No alternative for male authority, agency • Reemphasis on male positions of power and authority within the family • Toni: the great exception

  6. My Family and Catholic Influences • Jose and Maria: Joseph and Mary—her subservience to father (Jose) and son (Chucho and Jimmy) in the narrative choices • Jimmy and Chucho as the “sacrificial lamb”-endure pain, incarceration, suffering and oppression • Generalized female subordination

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