Unspeakable violence : remapping U.S. and Mexican national imaginaries / Nicole M. Guidotti-Herna̹ndez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guidotti-Hernández, Nicole Marie.

Series:

Latin America otherwise

Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Mexican-American Border Region--History--19th century.

Violence.

Violence--Mexican-American Border Region--History--20th century.

Nationalism--United States.

Nationalism.

History.

United States.

Nationalism--Mexico.

Mexico.

Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.

Mexican Americans.

North America--Mexican-American Border Region.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Remapping U.S. and Mexican national imaginaries

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.

Summary:

"Unspeakable Violence addresses the epistemic and physical violence inflicted on racialized and gendered subjects in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Arguing that this violence was fundamental to U.S., Mexican, and Chicana/o nationalisms, Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández examines the lynching of a Mexican woman in California in 1851, the Camp Grant Indian Massacre of 1871, the racism evident in the work of the anthropologist Jovita González, and the attempted genocide, between 1876 and 1907, of the Yaqui Indians in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands. Guidotti-Hernández shows that these events have been told and retold in ways that have produced particular versions of nationhood and effaced other issues. Scrutinizing stories of victimization and resistance, and celebratory narratives of mestizaje and hybridity in Chicana/o, Latina/o, and borderlands studies, she contends that by not acknowledging the racialized violence perpetrated by Mexicans, Chicanas/os, and indigenous peoples, as well as Anglos, narratives of mestizaje and resistance inadvertently privilege certain brown bodies over others. Unspeakable Violence calls for a new, transnational feminist approach to violence, gender, sexuality, race, and citizenship in the borderlands"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

A woman with no names and many names : lynching, gender, violence and subjectivity

Webs of violence : the Camp Grant Indian Massacre, nation, and genocidal alliances

Spaces of death : border (anthropological) subjects and the problem of racialized and gendered violence in Jovita GonzáIez's archive

Transnational histories of violence during the Yaqui indian wars in the Sonora-Arizona borderlands : the historiography

Stripping the body of flesh and memory : toward a theory of Yaqui subjectivity

Postscript: On impunidad : national renewals of violence in greater Mexico and the Americas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-359) and index.

Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, Winner, 2011-12

Other Format:

Online version: Guidotti-Hernández, Nicole Marie. Unspeakable violence.

ISBN:

9780822350576

0822350572

9780822350750

0822350750

OCLC:

712115421

Online:

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