Chicano nations : the hemispheric origins of Mexican American literature /

Chicano nations : the hemispheric origins of Mexican American literature / Marissa K. López.

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Chicano Nations argues that the trans-nationalism that is central to Chicano identity originated in the global, postcolonial moment at- the turn of the nineteenth century rather than as an effect of contemporary economic conditions, which began in the mid nineteenth century and primarily affected th...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: López, Marissa K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : New York University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
Mexican Americans > Intellectual life.
Mexican Americans in literature.
American literature > Mexican American authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Latinidad abroad: Sarmiento's, Zavala's, and Perez Rosales' narrative maps
  • Mexicanidad at home: Mariano Vallejo's Chicano historiography
  • Racialized bodies and the limits of the abstract: María Mena and Daniel Venegas
  • More life in the skeleton: Caballero and the teleology of race
  • Ana Castillo's 'distinct place in the Americas'
  • Border patrol as global surveillance: post-9/11 Chicana/o detective fiction.

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