Raúl Homero Villa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raúl Homero Villa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raúl Homero |
| FAMILY NAME | Villa |
| SIGNATURE | VILLA R H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
The transfer of the editorial and administrative offices of the American Quarterly to the University of Southern California and Los Angeles affords us an opportunity to explore the meaning of the abstraction "America" in 2004. Los Angeles is a site of struggle and servitude, imagination and affluence, gluttonous greed, and punitive poverty. It is a place where people secure unpredictable pleasures and suffer unendurable pain. Learning from Los An…
Barrio-Logos
Struggles over space and resistance to geographic displacement gave birth to much of Chicano history and culture. In this pathfinding book, Raúl Villa explores how California Chicano/a activists, journalists, writers, artists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying forces of urban renewal programs and massive freeway development and to create and defend a sense of Chicano place-identity. Villa opens with a h…
Marvelous Re-creations
Essay| October 01 1998 Marvelous Re-creations: Utopian Spatial Critique in The Road to Tamazunchale Raúl Homero Villa Raúl Homero Villa Raúl Homero Villa. Associate professor of English and American Studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles His interest in spatiality and Latino expressive culture is developed more fully in his forthcoming books, Barr-io-Logos: The Dialectic of Space and Place in Urban Chicano Culture (University of Texas Press…
Introduction
The transfer of the editorial and administrative offices of the American Quarterly to the University of Southern California and Los Angeles affords us an opportunity to explore the meaning of the abstraction "America" in 2004. Los Angeles is a site of struggle and servitude, imagination and affluence, gluttonous greed, and punitive poverty. It is a place where people secure unpredictable pleasures and suffer unendurable pain. Learning from Los An…
Marvelous Re-creations
Essay| October 01 1998 Marvelous Re-creations: Utopian Spatial Critique in The Road to Tamazunchale Raúl Homero Villa Raúl Homero Villa Raúl Homero Villa. Associate professor of English and American Studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles His interest in spatiality and Latino expressive culture is developed more fully in his forthcoming books, Barr-io-Logos: The Dialectic of Space and Place in Urban Chicano Culture (University of Texas Press…
Barrio-Logos
Struggles over space and resistance to geographic displacement gave birth to much of Chicano history and culture. In this pathfinding book, Raúl Villa explores how California Chicano/a activists, journalists, writers, artists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying forces of urban renewal programs and massive freeway development and to create and defend a sense of Chicano place-identity. Villa opens with a h…
Introduction
The transfer of the editorial and administrative offices of the American Quarterly to the University of Southern California and Los Angeles affords us an opportunity to explore the meaning of the abstraction "America" in 2004. Los Angeles is a site of struggle and servitude, imagination and affluence, gluttonous greed, and punitive poverty. It is a place where people secure unpredictable pleasures and suffer unendurable pain. Learning from Los An…
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Latin American Urban Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · American literature (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 work) · Citation (1 work) · City and town life in literature (1 work)