Border renaissance : the Texas centennial and the emergence of Mexican American literature / John Morán González.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González, John Morán.

Series:

History, culture, and society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Mexican American authors.

Mexican Americans in literature.

Race in literature.

Literature and history.

Mexican Americans--Intellectual life.

Texas--In literature.

Texas.

Mexican Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

Mexican Americans.

Literature and history--Texas.

Texas--Centennial celebrations, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction: Renaissance in the borderlands

"Texanizing Texans": Texas centennial discourses of racial pedagogy

"This is our grand lone star state": reclaiming Texas history in María Elena Zamora O'Shea's El mesquite

Forging bicultural U.S. citizenship: LULAC and the making of Mexican American aesthetics

A Mexico-Texan interlude: Américo Paredes, border modernity, and the demise of patriarchal anticolonialism

Mujeres fronterizas: writing Tejana agency into the Texas centennial era

Epilogue: From centennial to sesquicentennial.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780292719781

0292719787

OCLC:

311074814