Cida Chase to Speak on Chicano Literature

Cida Chase to Speak on Chicano Literature

TAHLEQUAH The Living Literature Center at Northeastern State University, through a grant from the Oklahoma Humanities Council, has invited Dr. Cida S. Chase, a professor of Spanish at Oklahoma State University, to give a talk in connection with the Living Literature Spring Conference dealing with the Literature of the Sixties.

Professor Chases fields of specialization are 20th-century Latin American fiction and foreign language methodology. Her book Estilistica y tematica en Alejo Carpenter (1980) is a pioneer study on that novelist. In addition to working with Latin American authors, Dr. Chases research centers on the study of Hispanic literature written in the United States.

The title of Dr. Chases talk is It started with Pocho: Outstanding Fiction in Chicano Literature. The Chicano (Mexican American) novel that chronicles the Chicano experience in the United States and hence stands at the threshold of the contemporary Chicano novel is Pocho (1959), written by Jose Antonio Villareal from Los Angeles, CA. The Chicano novel of today emerged from the troubled years of the mid 1960s and the outcomes of the Civil Rights Movement. Prominent Chicano works such as those by Rudolfo Anaya and Sabine R. Ulibarri appeared in the early 1970s, and the feminine voice of Sandra Cisneros began to appear in 1983. This lecture centers on the works of fiction by Anaya, Ulibarri, and Cisneros, and their contributions to the understanding of the Chicano experience.

The lecture is free and open to the public, and will be held in the Tahlequah Public Library, Saturday, April 12 at 11 a.m.

4/9/03

Published: 2003-04-09 00:00:00