Introduction: Between Revolution and Recognition PART I: FROM EPIC NATIONALISM TO BORDERLAND IDENTITIES: DEFINING SUBJECTIVITY IN CHICANO/A POETICS Epic Aspirations: I Am Joaquín and the Creation of Chicano Subjectivity The Multicultural Turn: New Mestiza Subjectivity in Late Capitalist Society PART II: RE-COGNIZING REVOLUTIONARY SUBJECTIVITY: THE STRUCTURALIST TURN IN CHICANO/A LITERATURE The Structuralist (Re)Turn: Embodied Agency in Chicano/a Poetics Topographies of Resistance: Cognitive Mapping and Revolutionary Action in Rivera and Viramontes PART III: NON-IDENTITY AND THE TRUTH OF THE REAL: NARRATIVES OF LIFE EXPERIENCE IN ACOSTA AND PINEDA Universalism and the Identity Politics of American Democracy: Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta and the Dialectics of (Mis)Recognition Universality at the Margins: Cecile Pineda's Face and the Horrific Truth of Non-Identity Conclusion-'Beckett is a Chicano!': Antihumanist Universality in Chicano/a Literary Studies