Chicano Chicanery

Chicano Chicanery

  • Author: Chacón, Daniel
  • Publisher: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558852808
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781518501517
  • Place of publication:  Houston , United States
  • Year of publication: 2017
  • Pages: 192

From Mexico City to “Aztlán, Oregon,” in bittersweet comic fables and through tales of frightening realism, Daniel Chacón captures the shrewd, furtive, and sometimes torturous ways by which Mexican-Americans manage to survive in intimidating territory–often only to trip themselves up.

Chacón’s Chicano Chicanery presents a baker’s dozen of short stories featuring switched identities (in both Mexico and the United States); an involuntary gang initiation; men’s betrayals of their friends and of themselves; and some slippery exploits at the law office and in the chicken-packing factory.

Are Chacón’s heroes and heroines sometimes ruthless and sometimes foolishly sentimental? Alternatively naïve and a bit too clever for their own good? Perhaps it’s because chicanery, whether it’s tricking others or sheer self-deception, is such an untrustworthy tool. Sometimes–even in the most practiced hands–it can suddenly turn into a fearsome weapon.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Andy the Office Boy
  • Godoy Lives
  • The Biggest City in the World
  • Ofrenda
  • Expression of Our People
  • Aztlán, Oregon
  • Mexican Table
  • Spring Break
  • Torture Fantasy
  • Slow and Good
  • How Hot Was Mexicali?
  • Too White
  • Epilogue: Story #7 in D Minor

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