There's No Place Like Aztlán.

The article presents a discussion on how artists lived in exile. These included diasporic artists, as well as artists who are indigenous but dispossessed exiles in their own homeland. A mythology of place evolves, and the myth gets translated into what the author terms as place-based aesthetics, a system of homeland representation that immigrants and natives alike develop to fill in the gaps of the self. For nearly 40 years, the myth of Aztláan , or the lost land, has been at the core of a Chicano male identity and has had a formative influence not only on Chicano psychology, but on Chicano cultural production as well.