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- Title
Cockroach Dreams: Oscar Zeta Acosta, Legal Services, and the Great Society Coalition.
- Authors
Schryer, Stephen
- Abstract
An essay is presented on Oscar Zeta Acosta's 1972 novel "The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo" and 1973 sequel "The Revolt of the Cockroach People." It focuses on the protagonist Oscar Acosta, who quits his job as a California Legal Services lawyer funded by the War on Poverty program, to search for racial identity and eventual transformation into a Chicano activist lawyer Buffalo Zeta Brown. It details his transformation from Democrat to Cultural Nationalist and from professional to agitator.
- Subjects
AUTOBIOGRAPHY of a Brown Buffalo, The (Book : Acosta); REVOLT of the Cockroach People, The (Book); ACOSTA, Oscar Zeta, 1935-c.1974; PROTAGONISTS (Persons) in literature; RACE identity; HISPANIC American lawyers
- Publication
Twentieth Century Literature (Twentieth Century Literature), 2014, Vol 60, Issue 4, p455
- ISSN
0041-462X
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1215/0041462X-2014-1002