El Grito: A Journal of Contemporary Mexican-American Thought Spring 1972 Issue

[Chicano Poetry] [Chicano Literature] El Grito: A Journal of Contemporary Mexican-American Thought, Vol. V, No. 3. Eds., Octavio Romano-V and Hermino Rios. Berkeley, CA: Quinto Sol Publications, 1972. Softcover journal volume with illustrated cover. Text in English and Spanish. 84 pages. El Grito: A Journal of Contemporary Mexican-American Thought was published to highlight scholarship and creative work by Mexican Americans from the United States between 1967 and 1974. It was published by Quinto Sol, the first fully independent publishing house to surface from the Chicano movement in the 1960s. The name "Quinto Sol" is Spanish for "Fifth Sun" and it refers (truncated) to the Aztec myth of creation and destruction. El Grito first began in 1967 and was the first national academic Chicano literary journal ever published in the U.S. The journal, whose name is Spanish for "the Shout," was "intended to raise awareness at what we could call a pan-Chicano/a nationalistic level". Considered an intellectual and independent critical space, it became a place where Chicano(a) scholars, authors and artists could work to debunk the "culture of poverty" and other negative stereotypes attributed to Mexican Americans by scientists, other literature works and the media. As the editorial developed, the journal was used to expand Chicano expression and self-definition. Volume in very good condition. (Inventory #: 21080)