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Disrupting savagism : Chicana/o, Mexican immigrant, and Native American struggles for self-representation / Arturo J. Aldama.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aldama, Arturo J., 1964-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Latin America otherwise.
- Latin America otherwise
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican Americans--Mexican-American Border Region--Ethnic identity.
- Mexican Americans.
- Indians of North America--Mexican-American Border Region--Ethnic identity.
- Indians of North America.
- Mestizos--Mexican-American Border Region--Ethnic identity.
- Mestizos.
- Mexican Americans in literature.
- Indians in literature.
- Mestizaje in literature.
- Ethnicity in literature.
- Decolonization in literature.
- Mexican-American Border Region--In literature.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Comparative study through discourses by Gaimo, Silko, Anzaldua and others examining the disruption of the boundaries of class, gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality in Chicano, Mexican and Native American immigrants in the Americas.
- Contents:
- PART I. Mapping Subalternity in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands
- 1. The Chicana/o and the Native American "Other" Talk Back: Theories of the Speaking Subject in a (Post?) Colonial Context
- 2.When Mexicans Talk,Who Listens? The Crisis of Ethnography in Situating Early Voices from the U.S./Mexico Borderlands
- PART II. Narrative Disruptions: Decolonization, Dangerous Bodies, and the Politics of Space
- 3. Counting Coup: Narrative Acts of (Re)Claiming Identity in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
- 4. Toward a Hermeneutics of Decolonization: Reading Radical Subjectivities in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua
- 5. A Border Coda: Dangerous Bodies, Liminality, and the Reclamation of Space in Star Maps by Miguel Arteta.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-173 and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613061621
- 9781283061629
- 1283061627
- 9780822380016
- 0822380013
- OCLC:
- 220950067
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