B V Olguín
Biographic Data
| ID | 148316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B V Olguín |
| GIVEN NAMES | B V |
| FAMILY NAME | Olguín |
| SIGNATURE | OLGUÍN B V |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Forgotten Foundations of Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Studies
Research Article| September 01 2023 The Forgotten Foundations of Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Studies: El Plan de Santa Barbara and Damián García’s Revolutionary Communist Synthesis, 1967–1980 B. V. Olguín, B. V. Olguín B. V. Olguín is the Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English and the director of the Global Latinidades Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Olguín is a scholar of Latin American, Latina/o/x, and Ame…
Violentologies: Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature
Violentologies: Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o subjectivities, or Latinidades, from 1835 to the present. Drawing upon the Colombian interdisciplinary field of Violence studies known as violentología, which examines the transformation of Colombian society during a century of political and interpersonal violence, this book adapts the neologism violent…
Ambivalent Mestizaje
This essay examines the complex legacy of Chicanx encounters with the enduring sixteenth-century "idea of Europe": that is, Europe as an epistemic category signifying the modern "civilized" Western world. Chicanx intellectuals contest the presumption that Europe is the enlightened antithesis to Mesoamerica. But Europe has always occupied a vexed status in the Chicanx literary imagination. Even Alurista's seminal 1971 collection of cultural nation…
Raza
From the Horrific to the Utopic
Research Article| March 01 2016 From the Horrific to the Utopic: Pan-Latin@ Speculative Poetics and Politics Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson, Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson is an assistant professor in the Mexican American studies program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Her teaching and research interests include Chican@ and Latin@ literary and cultural studies, and she is completing a book manuscript titl…
Contrapuntal Cyborgs
Research Article| March 01 2016 Contrapuntal Cyborgs?: The Ideological Limits and Revolutionary Potential of Latin@ Science Fiction B. V. Olguín B. V. Olguín B. V. Olguín is a professor in the English Department at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is the author of La Pinta: Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics (University of Texas Press, 2010), and co-editor with Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez of Latina/os and WWII: Mobility, Ag…
Towards a Materialist Poetics of Eros
Latina/os and World War II: Mobility, Agency, and Ideology
Caballeros and Indians: Mexican American Whiteness, Hegemonic Mestizaje, and Ambivalent Indigeneity in Proto-Chicana/o Autobiographical Discourse, 1858-2008
In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal gringo invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlán from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny. …
From Counter to Hegemonic: Re-Mapping Ideology in Latina/o Life Writing from the War on Terror
This essay maps how life writing by Latin American immigrant and US born or raised Latina/o soldiers in the War on Terror illuminates the troubling ideological contours of an ongoing subaltern move from the margins to the center. Latin American and Latina/o Studies continue to be animated by contestatory claims to subaltern, oppositional, and counterhegmonic status predicated on such life writing genres as testimonio . By analyzing a new wave of …
A Cornfield in Cuba
A Cornfield in Cuba B. V. Olguín (bio) We work wet fingertips deep into silky mud searching for roots of weeds that must be pulled for the corn to grow like it should. Each of us has a row of our own running up the Sierra Maestra. We are all new to this type of work. Except Ezequiel from Oxnard. He picked strawberries for 5 cents a pound before he knew how to spell his name. He'll never eat another strawberry, he says, if the price is too low. An…
Nom de Guerre: Upon Visiting the Che Memorial in Santa Clara, Cuba
Nom de Guerre Upon Visiting the Che Memorial in Santa Clara, Cuba B. V. Olguín (bio) How could he not smile dead from four bullets and broken leg bones a soldier added as ordered? How could he not laugh out loud at Bolivian anacondas sliding in the jungle under everyone’s field blanket? Their names were just too silly to be taken as seriously as the weight of an M-2 or grey pineapple hand grenade. Chino. Moro. Negro.1 And another guerrillero some…
Reassessing Pocho Poetics
This essay examines Américo Paredes's first collection of poetry, Cantos de adolescencia (1937), alongside his second poetry anthology, Between Two Worlds (1991), in light of materials from the recently opened Américo Paredes archives. Whereas current scholarship celebrates Paredes's hybrid poetics, anti-imperialist diatribes, and transnational allusions, Paredes's poetic corpus, when seen in its entirety, reveals itself to be undergirded by cont…
Sangre Mexicana/Corazon Americano: Identity, Ambiguity, and Critique in Mexican-American War Narratives
Journal Article Sangre Mexicana/Corazón Americano: Identity, Ambiguity, and Critique in Mexican‐American War Narratives Get access B. V. Olguín B. V. Olguín Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 14, Issue 1, SPRING , Pages 83–114, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/14.1.83 Published: 01 March 2002
Mothers, Daughters, and Deities: Judy Lucero's Gynocritical Prison Poetics and Materialist Chicana Politics
In the introduction to the 1996 watershed study The Real War on Crime, Steven Donziger notes that the draconian 1994 National Crime Bill and attendant prison construction boom have effectively created a new industry in the United States that conveniently fills the economic void resulting from the decline of the military industrial complex after the end of the Cold War. 1 This new industry, which he dubs the "Prison Industrial Complex," is built a…
Tattoos, Abjection, and the Political Unconscious: Toward a Semiotics of the Pinto Visual Vernacular
Tattoos, Abjection, and the Political Unconscious: Toward a Semiotics of the Pinto Visual Vernacular
Contrapuntal Cyborgs
Research Article| March 01 2016 Contrapuntal Cyborgs?: The Ideological Limits and Revolutionary Potential of Latin@ Science Fiction B. V. Olguín B. V. Olguín B. V. Olguín is a professor in the English Department at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is the author of La Pinta: Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics (University of Texas Press, 2010), and co-editor with Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez of Latina/os and WWII: Mobility, Ag…
Tattoos, Abjection, and the Political Unconscious: Toward a Semiotics of the Pinto Visual Vernacular
Mothers, Daughters, and Deities: Judy Lucero's Gynocritical Prison Poetics and Materialist Chicana Politics
In the introduction to the 1996 watershed study The Real War on Crime, Steven Donziger notes that the draconian 1994 National Crime Bill and attendant prison construction boom have effectively created a new industry in the United States that conveniently fills the economic void resulting from the decline of the military industrial complex after the end of the Cold War. 1 This new industry, which he dubs the "Prison Industrial Complex," is built a…
Sangre Mexicana/Corazon Americano: Identity, Ambiguity, and Critique in Mexican-American War Narratives
Journal Article Sangre Mexicana/Corazón Americano: Identity, Ambiguity, and Critique in Mexican‐American War Narratives Get access B. V. Olguín B. V. Olguín Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 14, Issue 1, SPRING , Pages 83–114, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/14.1.83 Published: 01 March 2002
Reassessing Pocho Poetics
This essay examines Américo Paredes's first collection of poetry, Cantos de adolescencia (1937), alongside his second poetry anthology, Between Two Worlds (1991), in light of materials from the recently opened Américo Paredes archives. Whereas current scholarship celebrates Paredes's hybrid poetics, anti-imperialist diatribes, and transnational allusions, Paredes's poetic corpus, when seen in its entirety, reveals itself to be undergirded by cont…
A Cornfield in Cuba
A Cornfield in Cuba B. V. Olguín (bio) We work wet fingertips deep into silky mud searching for roots of weeds that must be pulled for the corn to grow like it should. Each of us has a row of our own running up the Sierra Maestra. We are all new to this type of work. Except Ezequiel from Oxnard. He picked strawberries for 5 cents a pound before he knew how to spell his name. He'll never eat another strawberry, he says, if the price is too low. An…
Nom de Guerre: Upon Visiting the Che Memorial in Santa Clara, Cuba
Nom de Guerre Upon Visiting the Che Memorial in Santa Clara, Cuba B. V. Olguín (bio) How could he not smile dead from four bullets and broken leg bones a soldier added as ordered? How could he not laugh out loud at Bolivian anacondas sliding in the jungle under everyone’s field blanket? Their names were just too silly to be taken as seriously as the weight of an M-2 or grey pineapple hand grenade. Chino. Moro. Negro.1 And another guerrillero some…
Caballeros and Indians: Mexican American Whiteness, Hegemonic Mestizaje, and Ambivalent Indigeneity in Proto-Chicana/o Autobiographical Discourse, 1858-2008
In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal gringo invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlán from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny. …
From Counter to Hegemonic: Re-Mapping Ideology in Latina/o Life Writing from the War on Terror
This essay maps how life writing by Latin American immigrant and US born or raised Latina/o soldiers in the War on Terror illuminates the troubling ideological contours of an ongoing subaltern move from the margins to the center. Latin American and Latina/o Studies continue to be animated by contestatory claims to subaltern, oppositional, and counterhegmonic status predicated on such life writing genres as testimonio . By analyzing a new wave of …
Latina/os and World War II: Mobility, Agency, and Ideology
Towards a Materialist Poetics of Eros
From the Horrific to the Utopic
Research Article| March 01 2016 From the Horrific to the Utopic: Pan-Latin@ Speculative Poetics and Politics Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson, Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson is an assistant professor in the Mexican American studies program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Her teaching and research interests include Chican@ and Latin@ literary and cultural studies, and she is completing a book manuscript titl…
Contrapuntal Cyborgs
Research Article| March 01 2016 Contrapuntal Cyborgs?: The Ideological Limits and Revolutionary Potential of Latin@ Science Fiction B. V. Olguín B. V. Olguín B. V. Olguín is a professor in the English Department at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is the author of La Pinta: Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics (University of Texas Press, 2010), and co-editor with Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez of Latina/os and WWII: Mobility, Ag…
Raza
Violentologies: Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature
Violentologies: Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o subjectivities, or Latinidades, from 1835 to the present. Drawing upon the Colombian interdisciplinary field of Violence studies known as violentología, which examines the transformation of Colombian society during a century of political and interpersonal violence, this book adapts the neologism violent…
Ambivalent Mestizaje
This essay examines the complex legacy of Chicanx encounters with the enduring sixteenth-century "idea of Europe": that is, Europe as an epistemic category signifying the modern "civilized" Western world. Chicanx intellectuals contest the presumption that Europe is the enlightened antithesis to Mesoamerica. But Europe has always occupied a vexed status in the Chicanx literary imagination. Even Alurista's seminal 1971 collection of cultural nation…
The Forgotten Foundations of Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Studies
Research Article| September 01 2023 The Forgotten Foundations of Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Studies: El Plan de Santa Barbara and Damián García’s Revolutionary Communist Synthesis, 1967–1980 B. V. Olguín, B. V. Olguín B. V. Olguín is the Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English and the director of the Global Latinidades Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Olguín is a scholar of Latin American, Latina/o/x, and Ame…
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