Chicano literature as an expression of decolonial literature: Rudolfo Anaya

Abstract

Decolonial critical analysis as academic praxis constitutes, among other aspects of its heterogeneous fertility, on the one hand, an analysis of discourse; more precisely, an analysis of the subjectivities present in the discourse and, on the other hand, an analysis of the link between the production of discursive meaning in relation to the cultural frameworks that contextualize said elaboration. Production of meaning that has preponderance in all social discourses; or considered useful socially and in particular, in the literature. Stuart Hall had already pointed out that subjectivity is in all cases a narrative discourse, that is, an already established story that the subject finds in a culture. Thus, all those questions that problematize the how, the what, the why, a specific historical subjectivity is built within a discursive practice, as a given literary series, acquire relevance.