PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
1 appearances
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Edition 8 (1998) Winner
Alfred Arteaga
アルフレッド・アルテアガ
Arufureddo Arteaga
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- East Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Died
- 2008-07-04 （Berkeley, California, U.S.） age 58
- Nationality
- American, Mexican-American
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Residence History
- East Los Angeles, California, U.S. → Whittier, California, U.S. → San José, California, U.S. → Houston, Texas, U.S. → Berkeley, California, U.S.
Career
- Occupations
- poet, writer, scholar, professor
- Active Years
- 1974-2008
- Affiliations
- San José City College, University of Houston, University of California, Berkeley Department of Ethnic Studies
- Influenced By
- Chicano Movement, Postcolonialism, Gloria Anzaldúa (possible influence)
- Influenced
- Chicano poets and scholars, Younger scholars in ethnic and postcolonial studies
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia University | School of the Arts | Creative Writing | MFA | 在籍期間不明〜1974 | United States |
| University of California, Santa Cruz | Literature | Literature | MA | 在籍期間不明〜1984 | United States |
| University of California, Santa Cruz | Literature | Literature | PhD | 在籍期間不明〜1987 | United States |
Columbia University
School of the Arts
/ Creative Writing
Degree:
MFA
Period:
在籍期間不明〜1974
Year of Graduation:
1974
Country:
United States
Received an MFA in creative writing
University of California, Santa Cruz
Literature
/ Literature
Degree:
MA
Period:
在籍期間不明〜1984
Year of Graduation:
1984
Country:
United States
Received a master's degree in literature
University of California, Santa Cruz
Literature
/ Literature
Degree:
PhD
Period:
在籍期間不明〜1987
Year of Graduation:
1987
Country:
United States
Received a doctorate in literature
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Chicano Literary Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1993 | Rockefeller Fellowship | — | — | Rockefeller Foundation | フェローシップ |
| 1995 | National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry | — | — | National Endowment for the Arts | 受賞 |
| 1998 | PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award | — | — | PEN Oakland | 受賞 |
Chicano Literary Prize
1975
Result:
受賞
Rockefeller Fellowship
1993
Organization:
Rockefeller Foundation
Result:
フェローシップ
National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry
1995
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts
Result:
受賞
PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
1998
Organization:
PEN Oakland
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Cantos
1991 PoetryA collection of poems addressing Chicano experience and hybridity, exploring language mixing and borderland identities.
hybridityborderlandscode-switchingidentity
Love in the Time of Aftershocks
1998 PoetryA poetry collection that treats love and relationships amid cultural and political change, interweaving personal experience with social context.
lovesocial changememorycultural intersection
Red
2000 PoetryA poetry collection intersecting political concerns and personal history, reflecting on Chicano voices within American culture.
politicsmemoryethnicity
Frøzen Accident
2006 Poetry / experimental poetryA collection containing experimental poems that challenge linguistic and formal boundaries.
experimentalismlinguistic boundarieshybridity
Xicancuicatl: Collected Poems
2020 Poetry (collected poems)A posthumous collected edition compiling Arteaga's poems, offering a comprehensive view of his engagement with Chicano culture and poetic practice.
collected workscultural memoryhybridity
House with the Blue Bed
1997 Creative non-fictionA memoiristic essay collection that probes family, memory, and cultural background.
memoirfamilymemory
An Other Tongue: Nation and Ethnicity in the Linguistic Borderlands
1994 Essay / criticismA scholarly essay discussing the relationship between nation and ethnicity in linguistic borderlands, analyzing Chicano language practices.
linguistic borderlandsethnicitynation
Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities
1997 Criticism / literary theoryAn important critical study on Chicano poetics, heterotexts, and hybridities.
hybriditypoeticsheterotexts
Bibliography
- Cantos
- Love in the Time of Aftershocks
- Red
- Frøzen Accident
- Xicancuicatl: Collected Poems
- House with the Blue Bed
- An Other Tongue: Nation and Ethnicity in the Linguistic Borderlands
- Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Experimental and analytical style using bilingualism and code-switchingCombines theoretical argument with poetic practice
- Recurring Motifs
- borderlandshybriditymemorymusic and rhythm
Legacy
As a major poet and critic after the Chicano movement, he left theoretical and poetic contributions on linguistic hybridity and ethnic studies. His cross-disciplinary work influenced subsequent scholars and poets in ethnic and postcolonial studies.
Archives
- UC Berkeley Department of Ethnic Studies archives (archived faculty pages and materials)
- Yale LUX collections (digital holdings)
- SNAC Cooperative biographical records
Quotes
-
Chicano identity is a product of hybridity and is spoken from overlapping spaces beyond binaries.
Source: Argument in Chicano Poetics (1997) (paraphrase) (1997) -
Language mixing is central to Chicano cultural practice and an important resource for poetic expression.
Source: Argument in An Other Tongue (1994) (paraphrase) (1994)
Trivia
- According to sources, born in 1950 and died on July 4, 2008 (aged 58).
- Attended Monte Vista High School in Whittier.
- Won the Chicano Literary Prize in 1975.
- Received a Rockefeller Fellowship (1993–94), an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry (1995), and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award (1998).
- A posthumous collected poems volume, Xicancuicatl: Collected Poems, was published in 2020.