The haunted Southwest : towards an ethics of place in borderlands literature / Cordelia E. Barrera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrera, Cordelia E., 1966- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Borderlands--Southwestern States.

Borderlands.

Collective memory--Southwestern States.

Collective memory.

United States--Southwestern States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xlviii, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2022]

Summary:

In the American Southwest, Hispano, Indian, and Euro-American cultures display conflicting and competing avenues for legitimacy. Examining literature of the region, The Haunted Southwest makes use of theories of place, space, and haunting to show how memory instills an ethic and orientation tied to embodied knowledge. American modernist ideologies accelerated the erasure of indigenous histories and ways of being-in-the-world. The Haunted Southwest digs under spatial geography to expose sites where colonial and colonized cultures intersect and overlay to create a palimpsest haunted by history. These sites emerge as environments of memory--places of synthesis and renewal for indigenous and mestiza/o subjects. Pressing the need to disturb narratives within the "bordered frontier" foregrounds a moral imperative for place-making in the US-Mexico Borderlands. In this way, this book situates region and place as generative sites of ideology and ethnic identity that more broadly signify sustainable practices on the Borderlands. A primary goal is to demonstrate how a focus on the political and social forces of haunting embeds a moral and ethical framework that speaks to our most pressing contemporary environmental and social justice concerns. Through analysis and resituation of border rituals and celebrations, alongside works by Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy, Rudolfo Anaya, and many others, author Cordelia E. Barrera argues that an eco-spatial poetics attuned to multivocality within postmodern narratives breaks open haunted sites and allows us to re-map landscapes as a repository of ancestral traces and on ethical grounds."-- Publisher website.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Forgetting the Alamo on the Bordered Frontier

ch. 2 George Washington on the Border

ch. 3 Princess Pocahontas Ghosts Back

ch. 4 Haunted Cowboys

ch. 5 Towards an Ethics of Place in Two Chican@ Classics

ch. 6 Coming to Consciousness on the Borderlands and the Restoration of Ethics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-171) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Barrera, Cordelia E., 1966- Haunted southwest

ISBN:

9781682831250

1682831256

OCLC:

1245345363