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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

López, Marissa K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

American literature--Mexican American authors.

Mexican Americans--Intellectual life.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2011]

Summary:

Lopez (English and Chicana/o studies, U. of California at Los Angeles) argues that Chicana/o literature has evidenced postnationalism or transnationalism at its core since the turn of the 19th century and the collapse of the Spanish empire; a postnationalism that has posited an American hemispheric imaginary of space, place, and identity that offers "the possibility of transcending the racial inconsistencies of the empirical nation-state." The argument thereby places the origins of Chicana/o post/transnationalism in a wider context than scholars who have previously found its roots in the conquest of the US Southwest from Mexico and the imagined space of Aztlan promoted by the Chicana/o identity movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814752616

0814752616

9780814752623

0814752624

OCLC:

711835528