| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.4

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Book Review

Historia: The Literary Making of Chicana & Chicano History. By Louis Gerard Mendoza. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. xi + 336 pp. Appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95, cloth; $24.95, paper.)

In this work, Louis Gerard Mendoza examines the role of imagination and desire in the way creative writers and historians tell their stories. Specifically, Mendoza's work attacks the generational paradigm prevalent in Chicana/o historical writing. Mendoza argues that such an approach emphasizes and favors certain elements of Mexican American existence (men, the middle class, university students, and heterosexuals), while at the same time muting the voices, and perspectives of other groups (women, the poor, community activists, gays and lesbians) within our comunidades. . . .

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