Telling identities : the Californio testimonios / Rosaura Sanchez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sánchez, Rosaura.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--California--History--19th century--Sources.

Mexican Americans.

California--History--To 1846--Sources.

California.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sánchez offers the first historical and literary analysis of thirty 1870's testimonios from the original Spanish-speaking settlers of Alta California. Telling Identities scrutinizes the role of gender, class, race, language, and ethnicity in group identity formation as it looks into history to help articulate the cultural politics of contemporary Chicano and Latino culture in the United States.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. Testimonials as Dependent Production; 2. The Mission as Heterotopia; 3. Theoretical Disjunctures and Discourses of Liberalism; 4. Spaces of (Re)Production; 5. Politics of Gender; 6. Protonationalism in Alta California; 7. Constructs of Ethnicity; Notes; Testimonial References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-330) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8631-9

OCLC:

476093847