Badmen, bandits, and folk heroes : the ambivalence of Mexican American identity in literature and film / Juan José Alonzo.

Author: Alonzo, Juan José.

Imprint:Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, c2009.

Description196 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction: ambivalence and contingency in the representation of Mexican identity -- The greaser in Stephen Crane's Mexican stories and D.W. Griffith's early Westerns -- Greasers, bandits, and revolutionaries: the conflation of Mexican identity representation, 1910-1920 -- The Western's ambivalence and the Mexican Badman -- Stereotype, idealism, and contingency in the revolutionary's depiction -- Gregorio Cortez in the Chicano/a imaginary and American popular culture -- Reformulating hybrid identities and re-inscribing history in contemporary Chicano/a literature and film -- Epilogue: the return of the stereotypical repressed: why stereotypes still.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-189) and index.

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