Raúl R. Salinas (March 17, 1934 - February 13, 2008), better known by his pen name raúlrsalinas, was a Chicano pinto poet, memoirist, social activist, and prison journalist. Much of raúlrsalinas' writing was grounded in arguments for social justice and human rights.[1] He was an early pioneer of Chicano pinto (prisoner) poetry and is notable for his use of vernacular, bilingual, and free verse aesthetics.[2]
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| Born | Raúl R. Salinas March 17, 1934 |
| Died | February 13, 2008 (aged 73) Austin, Texas, United States |
| Nationality | American |
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Alongside Ricardo Sánchez, Judy Lucero, Luis Talamantez, and Jimmy Santiago Baca, raúlrsalinas sought to make prisoners' rights a more central focus of the Chicano Movement.[3] Incarcerated for over a decade (1959–1972) for carrying a small amount of marijuana,[4] raúlrsalinas wrote extensively while in prison, including essays, letters, prose, and journalism, the vast majority which is now held at Stanford University.[5] raúlrsalinas' work extended beyond his prison writing, focusing also on his Xicanindio (indigenous identified Chicano) heritage and his politics as a Latino internationalist. According to Oxford University, raúlrsalinas "transformed elements of the American literary canon."[6]
Works edit
- Un Trip through the Mind Jail y Otras Excursions (Arte Publico Press, 1980). ISBN 978-1558852754
- East of the Freeway: Reflections De Mi Pueblo (Red Salmon Press, 1995). ISBN 978-0962350603
- Many Mundos Of Raulrsalinas: Un Poetic Jazz Viaje (Calaca Press, 2000). ISBN 978-0966077353
- Red Arc: A Call For Liberación Con Salsa Y Cool (Wings Press, 2005). ISBN 978-0916727192
- raú́lrsalinas and the Jail Machine: My Weapon is My Pen (University of Texas Press, 2006). ISBN 978-0292713284
- Indio Trails: A Xicano Odyssey Through Indian Country (Wings Press, 2006). ISBN 978-0916727376
- Memoir of Un Ser Humano: The Life and Times de Raúlrsalinas, edited by Louis G. Mendoza. (Red Salmon Press, 2018). ISBN 978-1642042061
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Rubin, Rachel (December 11, 2006). Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction (1 ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 227–237. ISBN 978-1349534661. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ Vidales, Santiago. "Hemispheric Poetics: raúlsalinas, César Vallejo, and the convergence of Xicanx and Vanguardia poetry". 2019 Indigenous Knowledge for Resistance: Lecciones from Our Past. San Jose State University. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ Mendoza, Louis G. (Spring 2003). "The Re-Education of a Xicanindio: Raúl Salinas and the Poetics of Pinto Transformation". Multi-Ethnic Literatures and the Idea of Social Justice. 28 (1): 39–60. doi:10.2307/3595245. JSTOR 3595245. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ Mendoza, Louis G. (April 1, 2018). "Memoir of Un Ser Humano: The Life and Times of raulrsalinas". The Queer Turn: Selected Proceedings of the 2018 Meeting of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings). Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Raúl Salinas papers, 1957-2008". Stanford Libraries. Stanford University. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ Mendoza, Louis G. (2020). "Salinas, Raúl". Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1148. ISBN 978-0-19-020109-8. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
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