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Sol y Los de Abajo, El
Carolee Campbell
1992
Author and artist: Jose Montoya. Letterpress with wood type on title page. Modified accordion binding.
letterpress printing
accordion binding
13 x 6 in
12 pages
edition of 195
text by Jose Montoya
illustrated by Jose Montoya
published by Ninja Press
Jose Montoya has been and continues to be one of the premiere cultural activists in the Chicano movement. He is an artist, a musician, and a poet. He writes in a liguistic braid of Spanish and English that exemplifies vividly the leap in perceptual and aesthetic power available to the bilingual poet. The language of the Chicano is more than a mixing of separate languages. It is a blend of the two into a third which becomes intrinsically fused. Jose Montoya is an expert in this linguistic synthesis. Spanish and English are no longer independent codes but a single hybrid.
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