Title
Chicano Nations : The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature / Marissa K. López.
ISBN
9780814753293
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814752616.001.0001 doi
Call Number
PS153.M4 L66 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.986872073
Summary
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Chicano Nations argues that the transnationalism that is central to Chicano identity originated in the global, postcolonial moment at the turn of the nineteenth century rather than as an effect of contemporary economic conditions, which began in the mid nineteenth century and primarily affected the laboring classes. The Spanish empire then began to implode, and colonists in the "new world" debated the national contours of the viceroyalties. This is where Marissa K. López locates the origins of Chicano literature, which is now and always has been "postnational," encompassing the wealthy, the poor, the white, and the mestizo. Tracing its long history and the diversity of subject positions it encompasses, Chicano Nations explores the shifting literary forms authors have used to write the nation from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.López argues that while national and global tensions lie at the historical heart of Chicana/o narratives of the nation, there should be alternative ways to imagine the significance of Chicano literature other than as a reflection of national identity. In a nuanced analysis, the book provides a way to think of early writers as a meaningful part of Chicano literary history, and, in looking at the nation, rather than the particularities of identity, as that which connects Chicano literature over time, it engages the emerging hemispheric scholarship on U.S. literature.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
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Series
American Literatures Initiative ; ; 4
Available in Other Form
print 9780814752616
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Nuevas Fronteras / New Frontiers
Part 1. Imagining the Americas
1. Latinidad Abroad: The Narrative Maps of Sarmiento, Zavala, and Pérez Rosales
2. Mexicanidad at Home: Mariano Vallejo's Chicano Historiography
Part 2. Inhabiting America
3. Racialized Bodies and the Limits of the Abstract: María Mena and Daniel Venegas
4. More Life in the Skeleton: Caballero and the Teleology of Race
Part 3. American Diasporas
5. Ana Castillo's "distinct place in the Americas"
6. Border Patrol as Global Surveillance: Post-9/11 Chicana/o Detective Fiction
Conclusion: " . . . Walking in the Dark Forest of the Twenty-First Century"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
