WiLLiAM ARCE
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The Cal Poly English Department and the Chicana/Latino Faculty Staff Association (CLFSA) Present
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William Arce Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014 6 – 8 p.m. Building 180, Room 102
Dr. William Arce is an assistant professor of English and the assistant director of the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research areas and areas of expertise include 20th century Chicano/Latino literature, Chicano/Latino war narratives, multiethnic literature, masculinity, and literary theory. John Q. Customer Occupation
Professor Arce will be presenting work from his book project: “Soldado Raso: Nation, Masculinity and Loyal Customer Community in Mexican American and Nuyorican Literature of the Vietnam War”, currently in progress Since 1998 with Rutgers University Press. He has also published on various other topics such as the constructions of political and cultural citizenship. His latest article is: “Autobiography and Cultural Citizenship: The ReMembering of Personal History and Land in John Phillip Santos Memoir ‘Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation’.”
This event is free and open to the public. Please contact Dr. José Navarro for more information. ([email protected])
Special thanks to the Cal Poly Ethnic Studies Department for helping to sponsor this event.
Arce will deliver a lecture on Alfredo Véa’s book, “Gods Go Begging” (1999) about a Vietnam War veteran named Jesse Pasadoble , a defense attorney in San Francisco who must negotiate the two major contexts for violence (San Francisco and Vietnam) in his life in the context of Chicano/Latino war
narratives.
The Cal Poly English Department and the Chicana/Latino Faculty Staff Association (CLFSA) Present
PLACE PHOTO OTHERWISE DELETE BOX
William Arce Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014 6 – 8 p.m. Building 180, Room 102
Dr. William Arce is an assistant professor of English and the assistant director of the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research areas and areas of expertise include 20th century Chicano/Latino literature, Chicano/Latino war narratives, multiethnic literature, masculinity, and literary theory. John Q. Customer Occupation
Professor Arce will be presenting work from his book project: “Soldado Raso: Nation, Masculinity and Loyal Customer Community in Mexican American and Nuyorican Literature of the Vietnam War”, currently in progress Since 1998 with Rutgers University Press. He has also published on various other topics such as the constructions of political and cultural citizenship. His latest article is: “Autobiography and Cultural Citizenship: The ReMembering of Personal History and Land in John Phillip Santos Memoir ‘Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation’.”
This event is free and open to the public. Please contact Dr. José Navarro for more information. ([email protected])
Special thanks to the Cal Poly Ethnic Studies Department for helping to sponsor this event.
Arce will deliver a lecture on Alfredo Véa’s book, “Gods Go Begging” (1999) about a Vietnam War veteran named Jesse Pasadoble , a defense attorney in San Francisco who must negotiate the two major contexts for violence (San Francisco and Vietnam) in his life in the context of Chicano/Latino war
narratives.
