Writing the goodlife : Mexican American literature and the environment / Priscilla Solis Ybarra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ybarra, Priscilla Solis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

American literature--Mexican American authors.

Environmentalism in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xx, 216 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.

Summary:

"The book looks to long-established traditions of environmentalist thought alive in Mexican American literary history over the last 150 years"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: defining Mexican American goodlife writing

Chapter 1. Epistemological hierarchy and the environment: erasure of Mexican American knowledge in three nineteenth-century novels

Chapter 2. The coloniality of being and the land: identity in early twentieth-century goodlife writing

Chapter 3. "La santa tierra": Chicana/o writers transcending possession in the late twentieth century

Chapter 4. Active subjectivity in migrant farm worker fiction: rejecting alienation from the land

Chapter 5. Ecology and chicana/o cultural nationalism: humility before death in Cherríe Moraga's millennial writings

Conclusion: decolonized environmentalisms for the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-209) and index.

ISBN:

9780816532001

0816532001

OCLC:

929545648