%0 Journal Article 
%A Ochoa, Edna
%T El pachuco entre Octavio Paz y el trayecto para su reinvención en "Zoot Suit" de Luis Valdez
%D 2010
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/8337
%X This article focuses on the figure of the pachuco in the play Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez in
order to explore the most important aspects about this character. To achieve this purpose
I will examine its representation in various literary texts and I will trace its history to
show how the projection of the character changes from the Chicano movement in the
6os. This character is seen in a positive and memorable way, especially in the play Zoot
Suit by Luis Valdez, who regards him as a precursor of the Chicano movement. Zoot
Suit is based on a true story, the incident of the Sleepy Lagoon, happening during the
Second World War, when a group of pachucos is guilty of a crime and is imprisoned.
The accused become an evident target of discrimination and injustice, not only pachucos
but the Mexican American community in the United States, through police brutality
and the Anglo-American press. Valdez places the pachuco within a long historical
struggle by Mexican Americans for civil rights, giving him the status of political fighter
and symbol of resistance, Chicano pride and identity.

%K Critical article
%K Ensayo
%K Pachuco
%K Argot
%K Chicano
%K Chicano theatre
%K Racial discrimination
%K Cultural identity
%K Caló
%K Teatro chicano
%K Discriminación racial
%K Identidad cultural
%K Humanidades
%K Historia de América
%K America-History
%K Arte
%K Art
%K Literatura
%K Literature
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