War echoes : gender and militarization in U.S. Latina/o cultural production / Ariana E. Vigil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vigil, Ariana E., 1980- author.

Series:

The American Literatures Initiative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Militarism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Routledge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post-Viet Nam era. Analyzing literature alongside film, memoir, and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political, and cultural movements while exploring Latina/o responses to U.S. intervention in Central America and the Middle East. These responses evolved over the course of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries-from support for anti-imperial war, as seen in Alejandro Murguia's Southern Front, to the disavowal of all war articulated in works such as Demetria Martinez's Mother Tongue and Camilo Mejia's Road from Ar Ramadi. With a focus on how issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality intersect and are impacted by war and militarization, War Echoes illustrates how this country's bellicose foreign policies have played an integral part in shaping U.S. Latina/o culture and identity and given rise to the creation of works that recognize how militarized violence and values, such as patriarchy, hierarchy, and obedience, are both enacted in domestic spheres and propagated abroad.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Gender, War, and Activism in Contemporary U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production

1. Gender, Difference, and the FSLN Insurrection

2. "I Have Something to Tell You": Polyvocality, Theater, and the Performance of Solidarity in U.S. Latina Narratives of the Guatemalan Civil War

3. Demetria Martínez's Mother Tongue and the Politics of Decolonial Love

4. Father, Army, Nation: Familial Discourse and Ambivalent Homonationalism in José Zuniga's Soldier of the Year

5. Camilo Mejía's Public Rebellion and the Formation of Transnational Latina/o Identity

Coda

Notes

Works Cited

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8135-6935-4

OCLC:

879372443